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HEALTH 




I ANNY M. MAKLIiY 




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HEILBRDUN; 



OR, 



DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN 
OF HEALTH. 



BY/ 

FANNY M. HARLEY. 



Author of " Sermonettes from Mother Goose for Big 
Folks," "Feed my Lambs," "Healing Paragraphs, " etc. 



"By the activity of the word, the sleeping germs of everything are 
awakened into life." — Jacob Boehme. 



Chicago: 
F. M. Harley Publishing Compa 
87-89 Washington St. 
1898. 

TWO COPIES RECEIVED 




"R 21 4-6 
.H 18 



Copyright, 1897, by Fanny M. Harley: 
Heilbroun; or, Drops from the Fountain of Health. 



Owens Publishing Co. , Chicago. 



DEDICA TION. 



Earnestly dedicated to all who seek freedom through 
power of the true word. 



PREFACE. 



In answer to many requests from readers of Universal Truth and Truth 
students from many parts of the country, I have collected together the first 
articles which appeared in Universal Truth from month to month, under 
the heading ' ' Healiug Paragraphs, " during the first years which it was my 
blessed privilege to edit that magazine, and have made them into a book. 

Thousands have borne testimony as to soul help received from them as 
they appeared, and it is my affirmation of faith that many more thousands 
will be helped by them in times to come. 

That they are filled with spiritual vitality is testified to by the author, be- 
cause of the great help she derived from writing them and practicing them 
in her own daily mental training. They have been to her living words of 
Life, Health, Strength, Plenty and Peace, which they will likewise be to 
whomsoever will read and understand them in the heart, and practice them 
in the experiences of every day living. 

F. M. H. 



CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

Chapter I. — An Affirmation 9 

Chapter II. — The Power of Our Words 10 

Chapter III. — An Unfailing Prescription 12 

Chapter IV. — Mental Suggestion 16 

Chapter V. — The Power of Knowing 20 

Chapter VI. — Claiming Protection 27 

Chapter VII. — A Praise Treatment 30 

Chapter VIII. — Children at Home and at School 37 

Chapter IX. — The Power of Praise 42 

Chapter X. — Preaching the Gospel 45 

Chapter XI. — The Shadow and the Real 50 

Chapter XII. — The Power of the Word 58 

Chapter XIII. — There is No Death 61 

Chapter XIV. — Meditations for the Sabbath Day 65 

Chapter XV. — The Supremacy of Good 71 

Chapter XVI. — The Fruit of the Word 76 

Chapter XVII. — The Power of Blessing 84 

Chapter XVIII. — Resurrected through Cheerfulness. . . 89 

Chapter XIX. — Consciousness of Omniscience 97 

Chapter XX. — Trust in God Now 102 

Chapter XXI. — The Truth that Makes Free no 

Chapter XXII. — The Kingdom is Within 114 

Chapter XXIII. — Truth is Freedom 117 

Chapter XXIV. — The Contagion of Health 122 

Chapter XXV. — Forgiveness as a Remedy 127 



HEILBROUN; 

OR, 
DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 

CHAPTER I. 

AN AFFIRMATION. 

I have a pure heart. Why, of course, we all have. 
Why did I never think of it before, instead of always accus- 
ing my heart of being wicked and sinful and cruel ? I am 
my Father's child. My Father is Spirit and Purity. I 
must be spiritual and pure. I cannot be jealous, for I have 
a pure heart. I cannot be selfish, for I have a pure heart. 
I cannot be prejudiced against any one, for I have a pure 
heart. I cannot know hate nor revenge, for I have a pure 
heart. I cannot be hateful nor cruel, for I have a pure 
heart. I cannot be deceitful, for I have a pure heart. I 
cannot tell a lie or knowingly act a lie, for I have a pure 
heart. I cannot do any thing that is not honest, that is 
not of strict integrity, for I have a pure heart. How could 
we have a better affirmation than this? Let us all use it, 
for it is true now. 



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CHAPTER II. 

THE POWER OF OUR WORDS. 

Perhaps you do not know that the words which you 
speak are alive? They are; and they grow, too, in fruit- 
age. Hence, i ' By thy words thou art justified and by thy 
words thou art condemned." When you plant seeds in 
your flower garden they are very dry little things and do 
not look as though they had any life in them, but they 
have, and, being planted in fertile soil, they grow and 
bloom beautifully. But what about the seeds of weeds 
that get mixed up with the flower seeds ? They grow too, 
do they not ? and have to be rooted up ? Just so with our 
words. Every word we speak is alive. The good words 
bring good results, the error words evil results. Mixed 
results are from mixed words. 

Our bodies and our conditions in life are the result of 
our words, either silently or audibly spoken, it makes no 
difference which. A thought is a silent word. "As a man 
thinketh in his heart, so is he. " 

Speak right words; speak them unceasingly. Acknowl- 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. II 

edge the good; in everything give thanks, root out the 
weeds of error by denial; burn up the chaff with the un- 
quenchable fire of the affirmation of the truth that God is 
Love; chant the praises of the good; speak of health and 
peace and plenty. Say again and again that God is all in 
all and God is Good. Say that you are strong and well. 
Say that you love every one. Say, ' ' I love Thy law, O 
God, I acknowledge Thee in all my ways" (thought and 
words). Speak these words, for do you not know that 
"He createth the fruit of the lips?" 



AFFIRMATION UPON AWAKENING. 

Our Father, Thou hast given us, Thy children, strength 
for to-day. Thou hast given us health. Thou hast given 
us peace. Thou hast provided for all our needs. Thou 
hast given us love and good will toward all mankind. 

I will praise thee all the day long for Thy loving kind- 
ness and Thy tenderness and Thy mercy. My Father, I 
love Thee. 



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CHAPTER III. 

AN UNFAILING PRESCRIPTION. 

Many people fear that they cannot have health. These 
are the people who do not know the value of true words, 
who are always saying that they are sick, who are always 
complaining of their ailments, and who (even though 
unconsciously) are always accusing God of sending evil 
upon them. 

Now you do not want to do this; you never want to use 
unscientific language; but to always speak the Truth, and 
this will bring you healing. You found that you began to 
realize health with the very first word of Truth that you 
consciously spoke, therefore you are truly grateful for hav- 
ing been taught the words of Truth, and glad that you 
began practicing them as soon as you did. 

Suppose you do not consider yourself entirely healed 
yet, what of it? If you should suddenly find yourself a 
mile out of your way, would you not have to go back every 
step of the way before you would find yourself at your 
starting point ? So it is with your thinking. 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 3 

If you have been thinking wrong thoughts a long time, 
why of course you will have to redeem each thought, just 
as you had to retrace each step before you could get back 
to that ''very good" state of self consciousness in which 
you were created. 

44 1 came that ye might have life." 44 1 came not to do 
mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me." 

How could you ever have read those words and then 
supposed that it was the will of God that you should be 
sick? Jesus distinctly said that he did the Father's will; 
and then he not only healed the sick himself but urged 
upon His followers for all time to do likewise. 

As you now know that God has not sent your sickness 
upon you and that He has nothing to do with it, of course 
you are going to set right out for the attainment of perfect 
health. 

You are first to be convinced that you have only 
been sick because you have spoken wrong words, or 
thought wrong thoughts, which is the same thing, as 
thoughts are only silent words, and you know ' 4 By thy 
words art thou justified and by thy words art thou con- 
demned." You intend from henceforth to speak the words 
by which you shall be justified. Shall I tell you of some 
of these words ? Shall I tell you of some of the words that 
will surely, surely, surely heal you if you hold them in 
mind or silently repeat them often enough? Now, of 
course, when I say "word" I do not mean simply one 
word, but I mean a message or a declaration, or a state- 



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ment. St. Paul, in his letter to the Galatians says, ' ' For 
the whole law is fulfilled in one word even in this: thou 
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." So one of the words 
which I will give you to hold is " God is Love." You can- 
not possibly believe in any evil, can you, if you really 
believe that God is Love, because Love is Good, and if 
Good is with you and all around and about you, of course 
evil cannot be there too. 

Now if you have ever thought that Love was not Good 
it was because your idea of Love was pertaining to matter 
instead of God-Spirit, who should have had all your heart, 
and all your thoughts and all your love. Love is Good 
and is always good. 

Does it not warm your heart to know that God is Love ? 
Does it not make you feel grateful and joyous to know that 
Love is always with you, and no matter where you go 
Divine Love is there too ? And do you not find your- 
self becoming more and more loving to all around you the 
more you hold the word that God is Love ? 

Do not the cares and anxieties and trials of life fade 
away while you are repeating God is Love? 

Do you not feel less poverty stricken, do you not begin 
to feel more bountifully provided for, while you are saying 
God is Love ? Do you not notice a more kindly feeling in 
your heart toward everyone while you are saying this 
beautiful word ? Do you not find it more pleasant to work 
among your plants while holding it ? Does not your heart 
burn within you while you speak this true word ? 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 5 

You know whoever loves what is good is always better 
for the loving, so do you not feel that you are building up 
a stronger and more beautiful character for yourself while 
holding this vivifying word ? 

Now if it does these things for you, then it proves to you 
that " Love is born of God." If you ever have believed in 
evil, you will find that holding this word that God is Love 
will make an immense difference in your life, in your char- 
acter and in your environments. 

Perhaps you have been accustomed to thinking that you 
have all sorts of hard and unpleasant things to bear; per- 
haps things have seemed to be always going wrong with 
you just as you " feared all the time that they would," or 
perhaps you have been sick a great deal ? Now can't you 
see that all this was because you believed in evil and 
because you did not believe that God is Love ? So stop 
believing those old things and believe what is right and 
true; believe that God is Love and the hard and unpleasant 
things will melt right away from your sight and the very 
same things will not be a bit hard to you now; you will 
even laugh and perhaps think it quite funny that you ever 
did think they were hard. 

It will be to you just as though you had been awakened 
from unpleasant dreams to the realization that God is 
indeed Love. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

MENTAL SUGGESTION. 

There has been much complaining to me lately about 
lack of spiritual realization. All hope to grow into a real- 
ization of health, strength, plenty, wisdom and power some 
time in the future, but seem to think it impossible to claim 
these now. 

Why should we not claim good things now ? They are 
already given to us. "From everlasting to everlasting." 

It is for us to claim things now, for we are here to man- 
ifest God. 

God is the Principle of us, each of us. It is from God 
that our good gifts come; the things that are not good do 
not come from God, and we have no business to be having 
or appearing to have the things that are not good. 

It is our business to demonstrate the good, and how can 
we be satisfied to give less than our very best efforts to this 
work ? Declare ' 1 1 am perfectly sound and well in every 
part," with all the concentrated earnestness you can 
possibly summon. Give your best attention to it; give 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 7 

your best, and the "Best will take care of you." 

Whoever gives his best or her best to this speaking of 
Truth cannot help but demonstrate over the things he does 
not want. It is the law: "Look unto me and be ye 
saved." 

We do not have to tell people about how much we hold 
the word of Truth. It speaks for itself. If we give our 
best to it we demonstrate good health, circumstances and 
affairs. If we do not give our best to it, we do not demon- 
strate. Choose ye. 

Another thing that has been brought to my notice much 
within the past few weeks, is the claim of influence of 
mental "suggestion." Worldly people in this way are 
proving the power of thought and getting the world ready 
to receive the doctrine of "ideal suggestion." 

As the unit is announced or expressed in mathematics 
before that which is contained in the unit is announced, so 
did Jesus Christ in giving his directions announce the 
greatest first. "Preach the gospel to every creature;" 
what does that mean ? Why speaking the word of Truth 
of course. Speaking it to every one with whom you come 
in contact; speaking it to the whole world; now note — he 
said to every creature, and you do not speak it to every 
creature unless you speak it to yourself, and all that is 
within yourself. When you speak the word health to your- 
self till you are cured, from you will radiate health to all 
with whom you come in contact. 

Speak the word wisdom till you radiate wisdom. " Let 



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your light shine." 

These people who practice suggestion, think of their 
subject intently and incessantly till they make the poor 
dupe go and do the thing whether he will or no. Now 
really the only thing the subject wants to do is the right 
thing. He is eager for them to be saying: 

" God is your Health, God is your Strength." 

"Rejoice in the Lord." 

' ' In God is satisfaction. " 

"Nothing but the love of Good satisfies you." 

"Every word of God is pure." 

"God is Love." 

These are what they all desire to do and know. So 
when thinkers on the righteous line speak these words 
there will be great harmony manifested. 

If you see one acting contrary to the right — contrary to 
the law of God and man — one who is disloyal to tried 
friends, disobedient to parents or teachers, unfaithful to 
trusts — do not weight such an one with heavy thoughts, do 
not criticise nor speak of his faults but speak for his soul 
silently with all the strength of your Being: 

"It is his pleasure to do the will of God." 

"It is his pleasure to do the will of God." 

Do you not see that if you have faith in your word of 
Truth when you speak it that it will help him to become 
wise, loyal, obedient, and a law abiding and law loving 
child ? Would not you like to do this for your friend ? 
Would you not like to help on his conversion ? Would not 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 9 

you like to help bring him to the realization of the truth 
about himself and make him see that really he is the per- 
fect child of God, clean and every whit whole and not the 
error child at all that he supposes himself to be? * 'Breth- 
ren if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert 
him, let him know that he which converteth the sinner 
from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and 
shall hide a multitude of sins." 

Do not hesitate to silently speak your word of Truth at 
any and at all times. Affirm daily, ' ' I have faith in the 
spoken word of Truth." 



AFFIRMATION UPON RETIRING. 

Infinite Intelligence, Thou art teaching my soul, while I 
sleep, the law of my Being. Thou art teaching me the 
way of right thinking. Thou art teaching me how to prac- 
tice love divine. Thou art making me strong. Thou art 
making me wise. Thou art teaching me to realize that I 
am now healthy through and through. Thou wilt fulfill all 
my expectations that I may make Thee manifest in the 
world, for " Love never faileth." Amen. 



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CHAPTER V. 

THE POWER OF KNOWING. 

I read lately about an old soldier who had nothing to live 
upon, except a pension of six dollars per month. 

He very recently fell heir to a large fortune in Germany 
(several hundred thousand dollars). When the messenger 
came to tell him of his good fortune, he found him sweep- 
ing out a saloon, which he was doing for the sake of earn- 
ing a few cents toward increasing his scant living. Now, 
although he was worth over half a million dollars, yet while 
he was sweeping out the saloon it was just the same to him 
as though he were a very poor man with only six dollars 
per month coming for his support. While he believed 
himself to be poor, it was just the same to him as though 
in reality he were poor. Of course, when he found he was 
rich, he laid off his belief of being a poor man and saw 
himself to be what he is, a rich man. If the messenger 
from Germany had not been able to find him, he would 
still believe himself to be a poor man, and his riches would 
be of no use to him, because he would be ignorant of 
possessing them. 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 21 

The caterpillar seemingly believes itself to be a creeping, 
crawling thing, not knowing at what moment it will be 
crushed under foot. It does not know that within it is the 
beautiful butterfly that will be able to go at will over the 
sunny fields, and able to elude and evade all who seek for 
its destruction, flying high above their heads. The cater- 
pillar does not know this of itself, therefore it is just the 
same to it as though it were in reality nothing but a cat- 
erpillar. 

We as living souls not knowing that we are God-derived 
in our Being, are just the same as though we were not, 
while we are not conscious of that fact. We will not be 
able to do the works of the Lord unless we realize what our 
potentialities as the Lord are. We will not be omnipotent 
actually unless we become conscious of our God-derived 
Power. We will not be consciously omniscient unless we 
realize that we are the all-knowing One. 

Do you think you are a grub crawling on the earth, a 
worm of the dust ? Do you think you are a poor man with 
only a pittance of an income ? Do you think you are a 
mortal, material man? 

You are spiritual. You are the child of the Most High. 
You are created and made in the image and likeness of 
God, your Father. Awake from your dream of mortality, 
and know that God is Spirit and that His children are God- 
like in reality. You are heir to all this kingdom wherein 
you walk. 



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Lately a friend had occasion to write me and in his let- 
ter he gave me some very strong, helpful words regarding 
realization of plenty. 

They were such a wonderful tonic to me, were such a 
wonderful treatment, that I feel that I must give them to 
you so you can be benefited by them too. You know, 
of course, that when he was speaking to me he was really 
speaking to you too. This is what he said: '• There is 
such a thing as facing the impossible with the true word, I 
can. You can afford to rely upon the punctuality and 
plenty with which God's promises are kept. There is no 
such thing as fail in any sense. You can say ' Because I 
am the child of God I am prosperous: I realize prosperity; 
I am successful. ' 

" Endow with intense earnestness the desires that will 
bring you what you need. State your needs definitely; see 
them as in noonday sun; breathe into them the breath 
of Life. Be a soul artist; make the pictures stand out in 
perspective; hang them upon the walls of your constant 
attention; tear down all other pictures; allow no one to put 
any others up but that Man is the ideal of God and as such 
everything desirable and needful is already within him and 
is his possession now." 

With this treatment came to me a sure confidence in God 
as my bountiful supply, sure confidence that success would 
crown my every effort in the work of spreading the Truth. 
It made me know the " Word is God." 

Are you seemingly poor and sick and weak? Are you 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 23 

apparently blind and deaf and sorrowful ? Then you have 
believed in their reality; you have spoken them in your 
heart and you now show forth what you have believed. 
Come up out of these ugly dreams. Take your true word 
and be born again. Use your cleansing word of denial — 
and your sustaining word of affirmation, the waters with 
which you must be baptized — before the holy spirit can 
descend upon you. The right word will make you clean 
and pure and free. It will make you healthy and strong 
and rich in all things. Speak it until you have brought to 
pass all that you desire to see manifested. After you have 
brought yourself into a right state of thinking there will be 
nothing to trouble you. Spirit is calm, sure, steady. It 
cannot be disturbed; It is Peace; It is Power; It is Omnipres- 
ence; It cannot be moved; and you are like unto It. 

You know the Truth and you love it. You are eager to 
give it forth to your neighbor. 

As you cannot get all the meat until you have broken 
open the nut, so you cannot know the meaning of a word 
until you have gotten hold of its inherent quality. You 
can break open the word by much repeating of it and you 
will become like whatever word you say most or whatever 
idea you hold most. If you see characteristics in yourself 
that you do not like you will find upon examining your 
thoughts that you have held (even though almost uncon- 
sciously) just the very words that made you develop that 
characteristic. 

The very belief in evil as a reality could have made you 



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bad tempered; if you ever thought that you were imposed 
upon when a child; if your little heart ever swelled with 
indignation at evil and unjust treatment, that was what 
made you lately so sullen and gloomy and made you so 
melancholy. 

You once believed that you were receiving evil; you 
believed that your fellow men were willing to injure you, 
were willing to sacrifice you to attain their own ends, and 
then did you feel revengeful ? Read this — You do not have 
any revenge in your heart now. 

You know in reality that nobody ever intended to harm 
you or to sacrifice your interests in any way. You know it 
was only a mistake on their part — they did not know the 
Truth; they thought there was some pleasure to be gained 
for them from material things; they did not know that it 
was only the way toward death that they were taking, and 
that no pleasure and no profit could come to them in any 
way from the thing that they did to you. 

None of these things disturb you now that you know the 
Truth; you know that no harm ever really came to you. 
You know that always God was folding you around with 
safety. 

Did they take your money from you ? Well, the Lord 
has a plenty, and if you claim it He will give you all that 
you ask for. He will be your bountiful supply. 

Did they impose upon you and maltreat you ? Perhaps 
they think they did; but they did not really, for your 
heavenly Father had you in charge and not a hair of your 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 25 

head was harmed — now was it ? 

You would not stoop to revenge; you really cannot afford 
to, you know, because what they did to you is their busi- 
ness, and it is only your business to see how you treat 
them; therefore your thoughts are thoughts of peace and 
goodwill to all mankind. You are willing to pray for the 
people who used to badly use you; you are willing to 
bless them and to affirm prosperity and all good for them; 
you choose to see the Divine Spirit expressed in every 
man, and to recognize it. 

You have brought yourself into this peaceful state of 
mind by holding words of Truth. Perhaps now you are 
holding the highest word you know; you may even be hold- 
ing the word Jesus Christ, and if you are, what a beautiful 
character you will develop. 

You know we become like the word we hold most in 
thought. Everyone desires to be like Jesus Christ; he 
always was well, he always was kind and loving; he could 
do so many wonderful things. He could take himself just 
where he wanted to go and just when; could walk on the 
water; could make himself invisible to the turbulent crowd; 
could increase the loaves and fishes; always knew just 
where to find what money he wanted; always had self- 
control; he had so much love in his heart that it was easy 
to forgive and bless his enemies; he thoroughly understood 
God the Father — Principle — Spirit, so that he could lay 
down his body and take it up at will; and don't you 
remember that he said we could do all things that he 



26 heilbroun; 

did through his name ? 

How soon will we be able to do the things that he did ? 
Oh! I cannot tell you that; it all depends upon how we 
work toward attaining our end. We must deny away all 
of our errors, you know, and perfect ourselves by building 
an ideal character, which we can do if we will hold the per- 
fect name of Jesus Christ on our lips and in our hearts long 
enough. 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 27 



CHAPTER VI. 

CLAIMING PROTECTION. 

You need not have bad dreams, but in order not to have 
them, you must not let every little thing you hear or see or 
read of in the newspapers influence you in any way. You 
must train yourself against being influenced by all these 
things, until you become like Paul and can say with him, 
"None of these things move me." You must not give so 
much reality to all the newspaper talk and to all the other 
things of the mortal that come into your experience. No! 
you must learn to handle each one of them scientifically. 
You must say to this bit of news, "You cannot affect me," 
and to that other thing that you heard, "I know only the 
true and the real." 

If any of the things that you see or hear or read move 
you in any way, you may be very sure that you have given 
reality to them, and if you do that, how disturbed you will 
become. You had better begin right away to clear your 
consciousness of its false beliefs. Use the denials and affir- 
mations of Science; be systematic and orderly about it, and 



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I assure you you can train yourself into a clear and health- 
ful state of consciousness. 

Is not a selfish or a jealous or a proud or a suspicious 
thought a foe to be overcome ? Nothing can do us so much 
harm as to allow one of these foes to remain in our house- 
hold. 

What will not a selfish thought do ? Unless it is imme- 
diately put out it will lead all the other thoughts astray and 
make shipwreck of them. 

It is from a selfish thought that we become jealous or 
proud or suspicious. Our selfish thoughts clog up our 
livers, constipate our bowels and thin our blood. 

Clean your house or your consciousness by your cleans- 
ing word of denial, and do it in an orderly and systematic 
way. " Order is Heaven's first law." 

Use your denials and affirmations with the rising and the 
setting of the sun. Do this for a month, and by that time 
you will be in such a sweet, clear state of mind, that you 
will be able to take and use the next thing that I will tell 
you toward establishing your perfect character. 

Do not hold fear over your children. If you watch your 
thoughts of them and the language you use to them, you 
will be surprised to find how much fear you do hold over 
them. 

You are afraid they will take cold; you are afraid they 
will have a fall; you are afraid some one will impose upon 
them; you are afraid they will eat too much or too little. 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 29 

Scientist though you are, yet when it comes to your chil- 
dren you are afraid — or seem to be. 

Deny fear of any kind for them; you must do it if you 
want them to be healthy children. I have a little friend (a 
boy still in dresses) who holds very scientific conversations 
with me. Several months ago we made a bargain that 
every time we saw each other, we would say each to the 
other, " God is Love." The child became so fond of me 
that he wanted me to talk to him about other things; so I 
made statements for him which he takes the greatest de- 
light in repeating. 

I wish you could hear his dear little baby voice say after 
me, ' ' I am strong. I am perfectly healthy through and 
through. I am not afraid of anyone or anything in all the 
world. I can do everything that I ought to do. I love 
everyone and everyone loves me." A few days ago I was 
waiting on the street corner for a car when he came run- 
ning up to me. I told him to say, silently, " God is Love," 
to everyone he talked to all day, not to miss one of his lit- 
tle playmates. He looked up in my face so trustingly and 
asked, " Would you say it to a horse?" I said, "Yes; I 
would say it to a horse or a dog or a pussy cat, and I never 
see a horse drawing a heavy load but that I say, "God is 
your strength, horsie. " This seemed to please him so 
much that I think it was the most satisfactory talk we have 
had, and I know that it turned his thoughts into a new and 
healthful channel. Thus by interesting them you can teach 
your little ones to make scientific statements. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



A PRAISE TREATMENT. 



The teaching of the science of Being deals with your 
thoughts and not with your physical organisms; it teaches 
you how to reason and think correctly. "Come, and let 
us reason together," saith the Lord. 

Do you not know that you can reason yourself into hav- 
ing a healthy organism ? Well, you can. It has been and 
is being done by hundreds and thousands of people. As 
for myself, if you will allow me to be personal: before I 
tried this method I had always been delicate — very sick a 
great deal of the time, and delicate always, continually 
having a doctor and taking medicine; at last I said in des- 
peration to my doctor one day, ' ' Doctor, will I ever be 
well ? Can I ever be a healthy woman? " He just looked 
at me without a word of reply. "Answer me," I said, 
"tell me the truth." Then he said, "No, Mrs. Harley, 
you will never be a well woman; even if it were not for 
your diseases, which have become chronic, you could 
never be strong, for you are so delicately constituted 



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and of such a nervous temperament." 

I will not tell you what I passed through for a few days, 
until, by what seemed the merest chance, I was persuaded 
to go to a mental Scientist, and what do you suppose he 
told me? He said, " You can be a well, strong woman; 
you can be just as healthy and just as strong as you want 
to be. If you will obey the teachings of our Science you 
can make yourself able to do whatever you want to do. 
Health is the divine right of every child of God. God 
gives nothing but good gifts to His children, and you can 
have all the health you want." 

Now all this sounded like a "Fairy Story" to me, and I 
did not believe a word of it; for, mind you, I had been 
trained to believe that the doctors knew everything about 
diseases, and how to cure them if they were curable, and 
how to pronounce upon them when incurable, so I did not 
believe this man, who knew nothing of medicine, when he 
told me that I could be as well and strong as I wanted to 
be; but it was a new kind of talk and it sounded good, it 
almost seemed to me that he was ' * in the cheering up busi- 
ness, " and so I wanted to hear some more of it and I went 
back the next day for another treatment, especially as my 
husband said, ' ' Try anything that you think will help you. " 

The sequel of it all is that I am now very sure I 
accomplish as much work in a day as any woman of my 
acquaintance. I can walk five and six miles in a day with- 
out becoming tired, when formerly, at times, I could 
scarcely walk across the floor of my room, but my healing 



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did not really come so much from receiving treatments as 
it did in studying the Science and obeying its teachings 
myself. 

At first I was taught the denials and affirmations, and 
after I had used them a number of months, was taught this 
next step, viz: To take a statement for each day in the 
week, and hold it week in and week out, month in and 
month out. Now I will tell you just how to change your 
consciousness to a state of right thinking. 

On Monday make the statement of Being. 

On Tuesday use the denials and affirmations; not only 
the denials of Science, but your own particular denials and 
their accompanying affirmations. 

Let Wednesday be a praise and thanksgiving day. 
Praise yourself that you are so kind and loving; and that 
you are so honest in your intentions of serving the Good; 
praise yourself that you are so steadfast in these same in- 
tentions; praise yourself because you are so strong and 
healthy; because you have such a sweet charitable disposi- 
tion; praise yourself because you see only the good in 
everyone and everything in the world. Praise yourself for 
every good thing that you do see in yourself, and for every 
good thing that you want to see in yourself. You must 
praise for the good characteristic that is there to strengthen 
it, and praise for the good trait that seems lacking, to com- 
pel it to appear, for you know that the fruit of your lips will 
be created for you. 

Let Thursday be your day for declaring faith; say, "I do 



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believe that God is now working with me and through me 
and by me and for me; " say it with a sure certainty for it 
is true. 

On Friday be courageous and strong and powerful; over- 
come all obstacles by your word, say, ' ' I can do all things 
through Christ that strengthen eth me; " say this with all 
your strength, and I tell you you can do just whatever you 
want to do, even things that will seem like miracles. 

On Saturday affirm understanding. Say, " I understand 
the law of Spirit." Say it lovingly and gratefully, and each 
Saturday the veil will be a little more removed from before 
your eyes, until one day you will see clearly; you will know 
all things, and you will be well and strong and able to do 
all things. 

This is the way that was taught to me. We must be 
obedient and faithful to Truth teaching in order to be made 
strong and well. 

The "word is God," whosoever will may learn true 
words and may speak them. 

On Sunday acknowledge results as if you had them 
already, for you have. The Lord is the health of 
thy countenance. 

A few days ago a man came into our office on an errand ; 
he is employed by the firm of whom we buy the paper for 
our magazine. He comes to us regularly once every month, 
and, to my knowledge, had never before that day made any 
remarks, simply had transacted his business and gone out; 



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but that day he stopped by our books and cast his eye over 
them, as though he were searching for something. 

I enquired, ''Have you ever been given one of our 
magazines? " 

"No," he replied, "and I was just looking over these 
books to see if I could find anything that will tell me what 
you really are teaching." 

"Well, it is something very beneficial," I said. 

He answered, "I was cured of epilepsy after having it for 
forty-two years, and I believe it was in the way you teach." 

" I asked, "Who cured you?" "I cured myself," he 
replied. 

"How did you do it," I asked. "By prayer," he said. 

Then I eagerly asked, ' ' How did you pray ? Tell me 
the very words which you said." 

"Well," he replied, " I had tried all the doctors, taken 
all the medicines, and experimented with almost every- 
thing, without being helped at all. I was a church mem- 
ber, and had the Bible at my tongue's end, which I found 
I knew nothing about after my healing came. One night 
when I was on my knees praying, something said, 'Try the 
Lord's way of healing. ' I did so, and I was healed before I 
got up off my knees; and I have never had a spell since." 

I asked, "How long ago was that? " 

" Four years ago last spring." 

I said, tell me exactly how you prayed." 

" I just simply stopped asking the Lord to heal me, but 
praised Him for my perfect health, and I've found out that 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 35 

that is all one has to do. I praise Him for everything. I 
praise all the time. I found, as soon as I began to read 
the Bible from my new standpoint, that from Exodus to 
James it was full of promises of health, health to the people 
if they would only praise God, and that it speaks a great 
deal more about health than it does salvation of souls. We 
must praise for what we want." 

"Yes," I said, "praise is the secret of the Lord." 

" I found that out for a fact" replied he, " and I use it 
in everything; I have healed two of my children with it, one 
of typhoid fever, the other of diphtheria; we had no doctor 
for them but just praised for their perfect health, and I 
thought that maybe it was something like this that you 
teach in your magazine." 

Truly, God is no respecter of persons. How clearly He 
reveals Himself to them who, with an honest heart seek to 
find Him. 

Good is for you. Good is for you. All good is for you, 
and you have a right to have it. Health is for you. Health 
is good, and you ought to have it. It is the will of God 
that you should have health. You ought to be so well and 
healthy through and through that every day would be a 
joy to you. I know it is the will of God that you should 
have health. I know it because it is according to unalter- 
able law. 

Health is good — you ought to realize that you have 
health, for you are the child of God — and the child of God 
lacks no good thing. 



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Strength is for you — strength is good and you ought to 
realize that you have it. You ought to be so strong that 
you would be energetic and courageous and hardy and able 
to surmount and overcome every obstacle. You ought to 
be able to do everything that you want to do. Strength is 
good and you ought to have it. The child of God lacks no 
good thing. 

You ought to have a peaceful, happy home. Nothing 
but love should abound in your home. Your real home is 
your consciousness, and what you call your home is only 
the picture of your thoughts. If anything undesirable 
shows out in your home it is because you have had at some 
time, or are now having, error thoughts. If you have 
cheerful, peaceful, kind and loving thoughts you will have 
a happy home. 

You ought consciously to be wise and intelligent. You 
ought to realize that you have good judgment. You ought 
to know that you are capable and efficient. Wisdom and 
prosperity are good and you ought to have them con- 
sciously, at least as much of them as you need for daily use. 
Success is good — and the child of God must lack no good 
thing. Come now, let us be prudent, let us look well to the 
ways of our household. Let us in the privacy of our home 
— which means in our most secret thoughts — acknowledge 
the good and think nothing but true thoughts. Let us 
prove that our God is the God of health and strength and 
peace and knowledge and bounty. Claim the good, for as 
you claim so will you receive. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

CHILDREN AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL. 

The very first thing that we discover when we undertake 
to change our bodies from unhealthful to healthful condi- 
tions, and our consciousness from a restless to a peaceful 
state, is that we must change our thinking. 

In this work of becoming spiritualized we all need to, and 
must, pass through the same states or changes of thought. 
Some people seem to pass through these experiences more 
rapidly than others, but all have the same mental phases 
to pass through somewhere, some time. If the shade of 
our window is drawn close and we wish to draw it up so as 
to admit the light, we must take the cord and draw the 
curtain up. We draw it up either a little at a time or all 
at once, according to the amount of light we need, but 
whether it is drawn up slowly or quickly the process is just 
the same, the curtain has to be raised from the bottom to 
the top to let in the full blaze of the sunlight. 

When we want to change our thoughts from things ma- 
terial to things spiritual, we must begin with the first rule 



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of our science and work up; if a soul is very receptive to 
the Truth it will rise to spirituality very quickly; if it is not 
receptive it will only take in a little of the Light at a time. 

So many people tell me that the mothers do not know 
how to use the science with their babies; and they appeal 
to me in their letters about what to do in such and such 
cases, etc. 

Physicians and nurses, you know, have always warned 
mothers against nursing their babies when they (the moth- 
ers) were in a state of fright, anger or anxiety, as these con- 
ditions are sure to injure the health of the little ones. 

Now, every one knows that the fright, anger or anxiety is 
not in the milk but in the consciousness of the mother. 

If her thoughts were angry thoughts her baby was made 
sick. 

I cannot help but feel like asking these same doctors and 
nurses why, if they consider thought a disease producer in 
the baby, they have never considered thought a disease 
curer. I'm sure the world will wake up to the knowledge 
that it is of our thoughts that we must give account. 

If the anxious mother, instead of worrying and fretting 
for fear her little one is going to be sick, or because it is 
sick or fretful, will say to it over and over and over many 
times, " Sweet, healthy, happy baby! Sweet, healthy, 
happy baby! " she will get her little one imbued with the 
idea of health and herself imbued with it too. 

If the baby is thin and puny, say to it mentally, like a 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 39 

sweet song of joy, "God folds my darling round with love 
and happy health!" These words have all been tried and 
proven to work marvelous healing effects. 

I am sure that any mother who tries this plan with her 
little ones systematically for a month, will bear me out that 
it has been of great benefit, not only to her children but to 
herself. 

It makes no difference whether the little ones are asleep 
or awake, they feel what is said to them mentally. 

Dear mothers, Divine Love is good to all its children. 
You and your's are children of Divine Love; Divine Love 
must be good to you. No matter at what cross-purposes 
things seem with you, you must use the words to bring 
about the right conditions, just as though the right condi- 
tions were already here. Really they are, only you have 
not yet perceived them. Divine Love is always with you, 
always is ready to help you and cheer you, if you will rec- 
ognize its Presence. ' ' Divine Love — God will never leave 
thee nor forsake thee." 

A teacher who is principal of a school asks, ' ' What can 
I substitute for corporal punishment in school when the 
teachers appeal to me for assistance? They expect and 
want me to use it." Substitute love, of course! Teach it 
to the teachers. 

When a teacher tries to compel a child to do a thing that 
it does not want to do, it is generally because she wants to 
be obeyed, and not that she has the good of the child at 



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heart; if she had the good of the child at heart she would 
not think of compelling it to do a thing it did not want to 
do, but she would reason with it either audibly or silently. 
She would tell it that it is a good child (which it is) ; that 
it loves to do right (which it does, I assure you); that it has 
no other intention or wish; that it loves to be good; that it 
is so happy in being good; that it cannot be anything else 
but good, and that it knows that it cannot be anything else 
but good. 

She would tell it that it is free from all false beliefs of 
the race about children ever being naughty; that it is not 
deceived by any such false notions; that it knows the Truth; 
that it is a wise and sensible and intelligent child, and the 
best and most loving child in all the world, and she would 
find that the little thing would try its very best to please 
her, and that at these few spoken words of Truth, its little 
heart would swell and overflow with love and gratitude be- 
cause it was being rightly judged and spoken truly of. 

If teachers and parents would think and speak as they 
should, it would help the children to do as they should. 

To this teacher who does not know how to apply true 
thinking in her school, I must say — when you are sent for 
to discipline a child, take him into a class room alone and 
reason with him there; let him see that you want to be his 
friend; if 3'ou cannot take him alone, drop the matter with 
the request that he remain after school; nobody need know 
whether you whipped him or not; if you are called upon to 
do the punishing, you have a right to do it your own way. 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 4 1 

Never, never punish or reprimand a pupil before any one 
else; nothing takes away the self-respect of any one so 
much as to be punished in the presence of other people. 

A few mornings since, when going to my office, I over- 
heard the conversation of three young girls who sat oppo- 
site me in the street car; they were chatting of their school 
and were all as interested in talking of their studies as could 
be, except when speaking of their recitations to one teacher. 
One said, "There is no use to try in her class, for if she 
wants to mark you down she marks you down; if she once 
takes a prejudice against a girl, she might just as well make 

up her mind to take low marks, for Miss will surely 

give them to her." There was a sorrowful ring in the voice 
of this young girl when she said this that went to my heart. 

Very likely the teacher had some such experiences in her 
own school days, and but repeats them like a phonograph 
when the occasion comes up that reminds her of that time. 
I do not know of but one way out of this constant repeti- 
tion of old errors, and that is to learn of Man's true Being. 
We are making some good denials of such mistakes in the 
teacher's minds. Here is one of them: " You hold no pre- 
judice against any one or anything in all the world." 



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CHAPTER IX. 

THE POWER OF PRAISE. 

If you lack courage why not encourage yourself by being 
kind to yourself and forgiving to yourself. Praise yourself 
because you want to be pure and to see only the good. 
This will help you a great deal more than if you scold and 
find fault with yourself. Do you not remember that we are 
commanded to forgive our enemies ? Now, our only ene- 
mies are our own thoughts; therefore we must be good and 
kind to them and bring them into being good thoughts by 
praising and loving. Affirm, ' ' I praise myself because all my 
thoughts are so pure and truthful." Remember that the 
fruit of your lips will surely be created for you. 

See what a lady writes of how the true word worked for her : 
' ' Friday night Robbie went to bed complaining of sore 
throat, after n o'clock he awoke and was croupy, could 
scarcely breathe he was so filled up. For a minute my own 
heart seemed to stop beating, and I said, 'What shall I 
do ? ' Instantly another thought came and I repeated over 
and over, ' Father, I thank Thee for my child's perfect 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 43 

peace and health.' Within five minutes he was sleeping 
quietly; was somewhat restless through the night, but did 
not wake to realize anything until 10 o'clock Saturday morn- 
ing. Since then he has seemed less restless and better in 
every way." 

A lady asks: "If God does not see evil why was it 
necessary for Him to send Christ to save sinners ? " Now, 
my friend, how could God see evil when there is no evil to 
be seen ? God is too pure to behold iniquity, and yet He 
beholdeth all that is. God is Purity. Like sees like. Who 
are the sinners ? They who believe that there is evil and 
who believe that they themselves do evil. Two thousand 
years ago, as now, the people were ignorant of the abso- 
luteness of the Good. They believed in sin and that they 
could be sinners. Jesus Christ saw that he must teach 
Truth to the people. He taught them the truth about 
their Father-Mother, God. He told them that God is 
Spirit, is Love; that God was good to them and that with 
the unquenchable fire of His love He would stay with them 
until all the chaff (their error thoughts) was consumed. 

He proved to them that sin, poverty, sickness, and even 
death could have no power over them. To the people who 
listened to his teachings, and obeyed them, then as now he 
was a Savior. He is called The Savior because all he 
taught was true. The world has had many a man or woman 
who has been a savior, who has taught something of Truth, 
but Jesus Christ is the only one who can be called The 
Savior, because his teachings are the only teachings that 



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are unmixed with error. Any one is a savior when he saves 
another from making a mistake. 

When a person sees a good thing that he can do and 
does it, he knows that he is sent to do it by the Principle — 
God, therefore he can say he was sent of God. Now, can- 
not you see how God sent Jesus to save sinners ? God is 
Purity. Jesus Christ was a really pure man, therefore, 
whosoever believeth in the teachings of this pure man need 
not be dead in sins (or perish) any longer, but he can 
change all false beliefs and believe in the Truth. The Truth 
or the Christ tells him that Life is forever and forever. He 
proved to them that there was no death, for he got right up 
after they were sure they had killed him, and he promised 
to be with and to help his followers for all time: " Lo! I am 
with you alway even unto the end of the world." 

God is Love. Love stays with us till all our thoughts 
are thoughts of love. "God is a consuming fire." "God 
is Love." Love melts all error; I have been much helped 
by this affirmation: "Divine Love has melted my errors 
all away, and I now see the Truth clearly." 

Whenever you feel down-hearted and discouraged, say, 
"I praise and praise the Good because It is with me 
always." Say it until you become worked up into a 
light-hearted and joyous mood, and then you will wonder 
whatever you had been downcast about. Practice this 
every time you feel "blue" and you will soon overcome 
the habit of getting blue. " Habit is overcome by habit." 
You might as well have a good habit as a bad one. 



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CHAPTER X. 

PREACHING THE GOSPEL. 

Are you being slowly healed? Are you demonstrating 
but slowly over poverty and over affairs ? Can you not 
demonstrate self-control ? And yet you have spoken every 
word of Truth that has ever been given to you ? 

Under such circumstances some have denied that the 
mesmerism, magnetism and electricity of the earth could 
affect them. Many people believe that the earth is covered 
by three belts, the mesmeric, the magnetic and the elec- 
tric, and that human beings are affected by the influence of 
these belts. And some have said that the denial that they 
could be affected by these processes brought them freedom 
where no other word of denial had had the desired effect. 
I do not suppose they meant to accuse some other soul of 
doing them harm. That would be unjust; but that in strik- 
ing out for freedom they rejected every earthly thing. 
They rejected the error beliefs of the race; and I do not 
suppose they thought these belts to be a reality when they 
refused them. They denied them as an astronomer would 



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deny that the world is flat. 

If you have a bad dream you are not so foolish as to be 
disturbed about it after you awake, are you? Of course 
not; you say laughingly, " I am not going to be disturbed 
by a dream," and immediately you shake off all fear or 
nervousness which for the moment seemed present. 

Now, by your word you can also set yourself free and 
come out from any and all of the error influences that are 
simply nightmares. 

' ' I am free. No false beliefs, no error thoughts, no imag- 
inary forces can affect me at all. I am free because I am 
the child of God. I am surrounded and supported and hid 
in Divine Love. It is the only force and only Presence. 

1 ' This knowledge makes me free from sin and death; from 
all ignorance, all foolishness and all weakness." 

Are you sick? Try saying: "The entire race mentality 
and all the people in the world, or the whole system of 
worlds cannot deceive me or draw me into a belief of sick- 
ness. / know the Truth and their error thoughts have no 
effect upon me whatsoever." 

Are you poor ? Well try denying that all the error be- 
liefs of the race in poverty can affect you. Say, " I know 
the Truth, and I know that bountiful provision is omnipres- 
ent. I will not be drawn into any other belief or feeling." 

Fortify yourself in the same way against sorrow, and any 
and all untrue circumstances or outpicturings. 

These scientific statements have been of immense benefit to 
me, so I give them to you. Every one wants what is good. 



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It is natural when you see another have something from 
which he derives great benefit, help or prosperity to want 
it too. Why shouldn't you want it ? If it is good for him 
why would it not be good for you ? Well, now, if we show 
to all the people with whom we come in contact that we 
have a good thing, that by obeying the teachings of this 
wonderful doctrine we can be well and strong, that we 
can have our surroundings pleasant and harmonious, and 
our material wants supplied, don't you suppose they will 
want this knowledge that we have ? Of course they will. 

The law is " Physician heal thyself." The sun does not 
have to try to warm any one; it merely shines and all who 
come under it are warmed by it; it does not have to try to 
melt the ice, it is melted under its glow. After Jesus had 
spent thirty years in training his thoughts according to 
Truth, and had gained complete victory over every decep- 
tive thought (the devil), then, and not till then, did he 
demonstrate the full power of the word. 

Every bit of his teaching was pertaining to their own 
thoughts — it was of love, praise, peace, forgiveness, non- 
resistance, faith. 

Of course if we feel these things we show them forth. 
We even show them forth without knowing that we do so. 
If our thoughts are loving thoughts, we will do loving things 
and speak loving words. If one has generous thoughts 
he does generous things without even realizing what he 
is doing; if one is mean and selfish and stingy in his 
thoughts he will do and say mean things without being 



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at all conscious of what he is doing and saying. 

"Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh." 
Just see how much Jesus taught his disciples of ^//"-training. 

You can clearly see that when he said, " Go into all the 
world and preach the gospel to every creature," that he 
meant us to do so with our thoughts. It is very certain that 
any one so good and kind and wise as Jesus was, would 
never command us to do an impossible thing, and he would 
be advising an impossible thing if he were to expect us to 
go personally into all the world, for it simply could not be 
done except mentally. When you are in Asia you cannot 
be in the Sandwich Islands except in thought, and when 
you are in Africa you cannot be at the North Pole except 
in thought, and yet there are "creatures" in all of these 
places, and if you were to miss one single one you would 
not be preaching to every creature. 

And then, too, how would you know that you could get 
the people to listen to your audible preaching ? You cer- 
tainly can see that it was by our thoughts and our silent 
word of Truth that he meant we were to go into all the 
world and preach the gospel. He said, "Lo! I am with 
you always." How could he be with everyone of us always 
in person? He meant in Mind — Principle. After he had 
made his own thoughts truthful he saw nothing but the 
Truth; he saw no sickness, he saw only health, and with a 
word he made health show forth. He saw no deformity; 
no, he saw only perfection, and he made the man who had 
thought he was lame walk and leap in his joy; he saw no 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 49 

poverty — no; he saw just as much bounty on the barren 
seashore as on the fertile hills; he saw no death; he saw 
only sweet, refreshing life and proved it not only in the 
case of Lazarus, but of himself. He saw no evil at all as 
a reality; he saw only the Good; he saw no matter at all as 
a reality; he saw only Spirit or Mind and Its Power. 

If you want to see health in other people you must first 
see health in yourself, and health only. You must know 
that there is no such thing as sickness. Why, of course, 
there is no such thing as sickness as a reality. If there 
were you could not change it; you cannot change a reality. 
Now, what is real ? Nothing but the Good. 

Remember that the signs are to follow the believing. 
Dost thou believe that all is Good ? This self conviction is 
a healing state of mind. You and I will send forth our 
sunshine while we are in our own rooms as easily as while 
we are writing books or preaching to audiences. ' ' Let 
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CHAPTER XL 

THE SHADOW AND THE REAL. 

*' There is no lack of anything." Just think of that! 
We all know that life, health, strength, peace, prosperity 
and knowledge are good; but, we have all our lives been 
believing that there either is, or could be, an absence of 
these things from us, and, of course, this belief has made us 
more or less sorrowful according to the degree in which we 
have believed in this lack or absence. 

Now, when we willfully set out to see the good and to 
realize that we have the good right now, it follows that we 
have to make a deal of change in our way of thinking, and 
also be very firm and courageous in our refusing to be- 
lieve in appearances. 

You know an abundance of material things does not 
bring happiness unless you are in a happy state of mind. I 
have seen children who had toys and playthings of every 
kind who were constantly fretting and wishing for some- 
thing else; and I have seen a child with one or two cheap 
little toys, or maybe a piece of colored paper, as happy as 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 5 1 

happy could be. Now, you know this happiness or unhap- 
piness was all the effect of the state of the mind. Some 
people consider themselves "well off" if they make such 
wages as will procure them enough to satisfy what they 
consider the necessities of life; others worth millions are 
perfectly wretched. We are rich or poor according to our 
thinking. 

A pauper in an insane asylum (so called) may consider 
himself "a Vanderbilt " and be in a constant state of joy as 
he contemplates his possessions (in his thoughts). While 
the elder Vanderbilt himself worth his millions might be 
saying, " I am poor and needy, poor and needy." 

Omnipresence is not place nor space; it is Mind. Is 
omnipresent health always present in your thought ? If so 
you show forth health. We neither have to tell what we 
think nor ask others what they think. Our bodies, our cir- 
cumstances and our surroundings tell what our thinking has 
been. They are our witnesses. I do not say that it is easy, 
after having thought according to the ways of the world for 
twenty, thirty, fifty or sixty years, to turn your thoughts 
into righteous thoughts, but rather that he who does so is 
a hero; it takes keen perception of Truth, besides courage, to 
stoutly deny that a thing is true when all appearances are 
to the contrary. 

If you were innocent of having committed a crime yet 
were accused of so doing, you would assert your innocence 
in the face of all contrary assertions or appearances, would 
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for sooner or later the truth about a thing is always laid 
bare. 

If you had a friend whom you knew to be wrongly accused 
of a certain thing, you would stand up for that friend 
though the whole community were against you, would you 
not ? (You would unless you believed in cowards), and then 
when the truth of the innocence of this person was made 
known, you would be a hero in the eyes of the people for 
your staunch friendship in the hour of trial. Now are you 
going to be a hero in believing the truth of your God, or are 
you going to be swayed by the ignorant beliefs of the peo- 
ple around you ? From the instant of your choosing all 
things will change to you. Are you going to have an 
" absence of anything" or not? Are you going to have an 
absence of health, strength, peace, money, intelligence, 
capability to do everything you want to do or ought to do ? 
Are you going to have an absence of judgment or wisdom in 
deciding whether this or that is the best thing to do; are 
you going to have an absence of love and charity in your 
thoughts for every person with whom you are obliged to 
meet and deal ? Are you going to have an absence of heal- 
ing in your thoughts? Are you going to declare for the 
omnipresence of the Good? Every one wants to be called 
good. The hearts of the children of men are hungry to be 
called good. 

You know how willingly a little child will serve us and 
almost run his little legs off to wait upon us if we will 
praise him and tell him that he is good, and how awfully 



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contrary and disobedient this same child will be when he 
is scolded and wrongly accused. 

A lady writes, ' ' If God knows nothing of these material 
things why say " I am satisfied with the bounty of God ? " 
Why praise ourselves for those things God knows nothing 
about ? " Now, every one knows that satisfaction is a state 
of mind. When 1 say, "I am satisfied with the bounty of 
God," I do not at all mean that I am satisfied with the food 
that is set before me to eat, but I say these words so that 
they will fruit for me in a satisfied and contented state of 
mind. You know some people are never satisfied and 
others are always satisfied, and their abundance and lack of 
material things seem to have nothing to do with their state 
of mind at all. 

1 ' Why praise ourselves for those things God knows noth- 
ing about? " 

It does not make any difference to God whether we praise 
ourselves or not. God is changeless and not affected by 
what vvedo in any way. 

It is ourselves who are affected by words of praise and 
blame. We want to make ourselves express the Good. 
God our Father is Good; we want to prove to ourselves that 
we really are His children. Now, if we were to be always 
scolding and condemning ourselves we would see ourselves 
as evil and not the good offspring of a good Father. 

Nothing clings to us in our thoughts as does habit. We 
have been in the habit for years of seeing ourselves as weak, 
wicked human creatures, but we have now come to know 



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that all this time we were only looking at the shadows of 
onrself, and as we were so very busy watching the shadows 
we forgot to raise our eyes to look at our real self, but now 
we know that we must bend all our strength, will, mind and 
heart toward seeing the real, and that we must treat the 
shadows just as though they were what they are, nothing. 
Life and health and strength and peace and prosperity and 
knowledge are all real and true. In fact everything that is 
of God is true. Death, sickness, weakness, inharmony and 
discord, poverty and ignorance are shadows. 

Do you not think it would be more pleasant to watch the 
real than the shadows ? The shadows appear to be real. 
When you try to amuse the baby by casting a shadow on 
the wall at night, he will laugh and scream with delight as 
he watches the funny dancing things which seem so real to 
him, but you know that it is only a shadow, and if you tell 
your little one that it is not a real thing but only a shadow 
he will at first be very much surprised; directly he will see 
it to be so and forever after remember it to be only a 
shadow, even though he be as highly amused as when igno- 
rant of this fact. You now want to always remember that 
it is always good things that belong to the real of you, and 
to make yourself remember this and see this, you use words 
that contradict the reality of the shadows and affirm the 
truth of the real. If your belief in the shadows has been 
very strong you use words to reason yourself into seeing 
the real and good. 

Suppose you see a shadow of sickness over yourself; you 



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would say, ' ' / am not sick, I am perfectly well. Spirit is 
Changeless Health, I express Spirit, therefore I must have 
health. I could not have other than health and be Spiritual, 

You would declare yourself to be strong for Spirit is 
Strength Omnipotent, which you express. You would deny 
that there could be any failure or poverty for you, for Spirit 
is Bounty Itself. ' ' The earth is the Lord's and the full- 
ness thereof, " and the Lord you know is everywhere present. 

Did you ever notice how people bring to themselves 
either good and pleasant things or else bring upon them- 
selves suffering and sorrow all because of their beliefs about 
God ? If you think that God sends sickness and affliction 
upon you, you will have them either yourself, or in your 
family, or if you think he would condemn the heathen to 
punishment everlasting because they have never heard the 
gospel preached as you think it ought to be preached, why 
your children or some very near and dear to you will be 
heathen. But if you are just in your thought toward God 
you will reap the reward of your right thinking in health 
and peace and prosperity. 

' 1 1 cannot quite satisfy myself from all I have read and 
thought as to who or what Christ is. Can you give me a 
little light on the subject?" 

Christ is the Truth. Whenever you speak a true word 
you are speaking or preaching Christ. When you speak 
error you are speaking what is not true, therefore you are 
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Jesus was called the Christ because he thought, spoke and 
did the works of Truth. When one has "accepted Christ" 
he means that he has determined to think Christ thoughts 
and do Christ deeds. The Holy Spirft has spread Its white 
wings over him and folded him in Its loving Presence when 
he has so determined, and then he has been baptized oi the 
Spirit. The denials of Science are symbolized by water, so 
one has been baptized of water when he has used the 
denials until he has freed his thoughts from their old beliefs. 
Christ comes to our realization after we have denied away 
all that is not Christ from our thoughts. 

If we sit in the silence very still and keep our mental eye 
upon the word Christ or Truth much will be revealed to us. 

The Holy Spirt reveals itself to us when we pay atten- 
tion to it. 

It pays us to take time to be taught of the Spirit. 

Do you not remember that the Master told Mary that she 
had chosen the better part? and do not you remember 
when he desired to be taught of the Spirit that he always 
went into a mountain? That meant that he went into an 
exalted state of mind, or placed his thoughts solely upon 
Spirit . 

The Spirit of Truth will teach you all things. " Ye shall- 
know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free;" free 
from any belief of sin, sickness or death. It will free you 
from all beliefs of poverty, sorrow or misfortune. It will 
free you from all weakness of character, all self-condemna- 
tion, or self-abnegation. It will free you from all prejudice 



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and all uncharitableness. It will make you to know the 
truth about our dear loving Father whose Spirit dwells in 
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CHAPTER XII. 

THE POWER OF THE WORD. 

How much some of the people speak of dying in their 
letters to me! Why don't they speak and think of living? 
"God is not a God of the dead but of the living." 

Cannot the people wake up to the fact that it makes all 
the difference in the world to them what words they speak? 

A lady who believed herself very sick said to me lately, 
"I can't see what difference it makes what words you 
speak; " she did not realize that it was the words which she 
had always spoken that had brought her into the condition, 
called sickness. If it does not make any difference in one 
particular what words you speak, why should it do so in 
another case? If you give your cook a recipe for making 
cake, and in carelessness in your use of words write sawdust 
where it should have been baking powder, will your cake 
be what it would have been had you used the right words? 
Then why say it does not make any difference what words 
you use? It does make a difference, and you know it does 
if you will only stop to give one searching thought to the 



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matter. Speak the words of your own choosing, but be 
sure of this, that everything bears fruit after its kind. If 
you do not want to die you would better be wary how you 
speak the word die; if your thoughts have been much filled 
with the word "dying" you would better take "a day off" 
and speak the word life, life, life all day long. I promise 
you that you will feel the blood surge through you and you 
will tingle with a renewed force that no tonic in all the uni- 
verse can give you. If you have spoken of sickness or be- 
lieved in sickness till you at last find yourself sick, then say 
"health, health, health." 

This morning a lady came and sat down beside me, look- 
ing the very picture of distress, as dejected as though she 
had lost her last friend; directly she informed me that she 
was having a bilious attack. I made no audible reply, but 
said mentally, "See here, don't you know that I am 
healthful? Well, I am, and you cannot sit alongside of 
me without feeling well; do you hear? " She turned and 
looked into my face and laughed, and yet I had said noth- 
ing audible to her. I see to-night that she is feeling quite 
" chipper." Suppose I had said, " Oh! I am so sorry for 
you; is there nothing I can do for you? Hadn't you better 
take some nux vomica or a blue mass pill, and soak your 
feet and stay in bed to-day? " Just suppose I had done 
that. She would have immediately decided she was pretty 
sick, would have felt alarmed, would have become flushed 
and feverish, would have neglected her duties, would have 
made me a lot of trouble, causing me to neglect my duties, 



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and dear knows what all — but I did not say any such non- 
sense. I spoke the Truth; she went off and attended to 
her business all day, I went off to mine, and to-night she 
has gone to a reception. 

Which is the wiser, to speak words of Truth or words of 
error? 

If you think it does not make any difference what words 
you speak, try sometime when you are nervous, or think you 
are, instead of, "I am so nervous I don't know what to do 
with myself," or " I am so nervous I feel as if I should fly 
to pieces," say, "I am perfectly strong and calm and 
peaceful. I am quiet. I am at rest. I feel perfectly har- 
monious and at peace," and see how differently you will 
feel. In the same way can you handle yourself for ineffi- 
ciency, ignorance, poverty, etc., etc. Never again say it 
makes no difference what words you use, for it does make 
a difference. It makes the difference between living or 
dying, sickness or health, weakness or strength, ignorance 
or intelligence, capability or inefficiency, poverty or plenty, 
sweet temper or ugly temper; in fact it makes your ' ' within " 
either a heaven or the other place. Would you not better 
try and speak true words? It is never too late to mend. 
Begin now and train yourself to speak and think true words, 
then " Shall thy health spring forth speedily." The Scrip- 
ture says, " A man's word is his only burden." He makes 
himself grievous burdens by many words, but true speaking 
sets him free from all evil. ' ' Ye shall know the Truth and 
the Truth shall make you free." 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



THERE IS NO DEATH. 



I heard lately of a beautiful case of healing. A little 
baby was very ill; three doctors, its mother, grandmother 
and nurse all thought he was going to die. The baby's 
grandfather was the only one in the family who knew any- 
thing of our blessed law of healing, and he felt the thought 
so strong against him that it seemed as though his words 
were ' ' as peas thrown against a stone wall with the hopes 
of breaking it down;" finally, one evening he was told, when 
he returned from his business, that if the baby could live 
through the night that he could possibly be saved; they were 
trying to keep up his strength on whiskey, etc. He then 
felt that he must speak the health giving word, and the 
words "All things are possible to them that believe," were 
shown to him. He went in and sat down before the baby 
and his silent words were something like these: "Fear not, 
baby, Jesus is here; Jesus loves little ones and you are all 
right and safe in his care; peace, peace, baby; you belong 
to Jesus, fear not." Soon the child began to spring up and 



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down and looked him steadily in the face with arms and 
legs agoing. The grandfather took the baby and walked 
up and down with him, still treating him, till he was filled 
through and through with the joy that comes from speak- 
ing the Spirit-given word of Truth. 

The baby was soon in his accustomed state of health, and 
the dear grandfather is filled with love and gratitude to the 
Father of lights who gives such good gifts to His children 
always. 

Truly the word of Truth is Spirit and Life. It is health 
to the flesh and marrow to the bones. Who would not 
speak this loving, healing word? It is with this word that 
we can be kind to one another; with this word that we can 
cheer, strengthen and encourage. " Little children love 
one another." Be good to one another in your thoughts — 
be charitable, be patient with one another, and speak the 
true word in love always. Thus can we fulfill the law of 
Christ. 

There is no death. What seems to be so is only an ap- 
pearance. Life is real. Life is true. Everything and 
every one has a right to manifest life because the Real and 
True ought to be made manifest. That ever any evil thing 
seems to be made manifest is because of ignorance, but as 
we grow in knowledge of the Truth that much more do we 
make Truth manifest. 

The last error which we shall overcome is the error called 
death. We must learn to make eternal Life manifest. You 
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the true thoughts will manifest for themselves a true body. 

It is not necessary for us to be sick or to suffer and die. 
Not at all. Health and strength and life are our birthright. 
We can sleep the sleep of the just. We can "rest in the 
Lord." We can awake in the likeness of our Creator, all 
peacefully and calmly and beautifully. 

Do you ask why your word of Truth was not able to 
keep your husband or your mother here? "Why was it 
when you had spoken the word so faithfully ? " Sometimes 
it takes faith on both sides. Did your husband or mother 
have faith that the Lord is the health of His people, or did 
they believe in sickness and death? If they believed in the 
latter they only reaped what they had believed. If you 
believe in life and health, you will symbolize that you do 
by expressing life and health. It reads, " according to thy 
faith be it unto thee." 

You cannot have faith for your husband or for your 
mother any more than you can sleep or breathe for them. 
Every man must work out his own salvation. Every man 
must think for himself and understand for himself. 

Think your true thought, your loving thought, your heal- 
ing thought, until you see for yourself the Truth of your 
own Being, then will you be better able to speak the life 
giving word to your friend. As long as we believe in sick- 
ness, suffering and death, just so long will we be called 
upon to go through those things. 

It makes a mighty difference to us what we believe, 
and our beliefs are sure to fruit for us. Let us believe 



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that the Lord is the health of His people and that our God 
is the God of the living and not of the dead. We can 
encourage this belief if we want to — whatever we really in- 
tend to do, we can do. See what the little boy in ''Tim's 
Tales" accomplished by saying, " I can and I will." Those 
are really magic words. We can accomplish so much by 
them. After we have determined that we can and we will, 
then we must hold our idea in mind until we have accom- 
plished it. 

We can grow into a knowledge of the perfect doctrine. 
Now let us do it. 

If we want to save the nation we must begin with the 
children. ' ' Suffer little children to come unto me and for- 
bid them not," means much. The children accept the 
Truth so beautifully, and when it is once shown to them 
they trust it so implicitly that they are veritable miracle 
workers indeed. The Spirit speaks to their loving little 
hearts and tells them just the right thing to do and say. 
So you see the children must be taught, and this is the mis- 
sion of Truth. It will teach the children to be bright and 
happy, to be strong and brave and good. It will teach 
them how to handle the affairs of life; in their homes and 
in school — with playmates, parents and teachers. It will 
show them the pleasure of doing good and being good. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 

MEDITATIONS FOR THE SABBATH DAY. 

I know a lady who says when she was a child, Sunday 
was such a gloomy day for her. She was made to feel that 
everything she did was wicked because it was Sunday. It 
was constantly sounded in her ears, "Hush! remember this 
is Sunday! " 

But now since she has found the Truth, in this very 
"hush" is her peace, her joy, her calm, and her satisfac- 
tion. It is her holy Sabbath day. The man-made Sabbath, 
which she disliked, has been turned into a spiritual Sabbath 
day for her. 

It has been said that "nature observes no Sabbaths. 
The grain grows, the flowers bloom, the wood burns, the 
waters run, sun shines and rain falls as much on the Sab- 
bath as on other days; therefore, as there is no natural nor 
divine law in it, it is plain that it is merely an observance." 
Jesus Christ also taught this, for he said, "The sabbath 
w r as made for man, and not man for the sabbath." 

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prompted. The real Sabbath is a day of Rest. In it is 
found peace. 

The real Sabbath is only to be found within the soul. 
When we have peace, when we have rested from our labors 
of striving, of criticism, of condemnation, of any and all 
error thoughts, then we have "rest unto our souls" and we 
are in the Sabbath day — the Holy Sabbath day. 

It is possible to attain this state of mind. How? By 
living up to your highest ideal all the time; thinking your 
best and truest every minute. Unless we live up to the 
understanding we now have what would be the use of our 
having greater understanding? 

Unless we use our one talent, what is the necessity for 
our having ten? Why should we be provided with great 
riches when we do not use the little money which we now 
have to the very best advantage? He that is faithful over 
a few things shall be made ruler over many things. 

When I first saw the light of Truth there was one pas- 
sage of scripture that was of more comfort to me than any 
other, viz. : — "The race is not to the swift nor the battle to 
the strong" — but to the steady hearted. I saw so much to 
do for myself, so many errors to overcome, so many physi- 
cal disabilities to come up out of, that I thought I never, 
never could get where I wanted to be. I was one day 
seemingly clear disheartened when I heard my teacher say 
at a meeting, ' ' The race is not to the swift nor the battle 
to the strong " — but to the steady hearted. My heart gave 
a great leap — I said to myself, ' ' I can be that, I can be 



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steady, I can be steadfast, I can try and try and never give 
up trying until I am cleansed from my error thoughts, until 
I am strong and well." From that day to this I have 
never once faltered in my intention to steadily pursue this 
Truth. Through misrepresentations, through criticism, 
through scoffing, through sickness, through health, through 
seeming failures and beautiful successes, I have kept stead- 
ily on, and I am beginning to see that "They who perse- 
vere to the end shall have a crown of life." The end 
means to the end of error, or he who perseveres till he has 
overcome his error. He shall reap the reward which right 
thinking brings. This reward is knowledge of Truth, peace 
in the mind, and all prosperity. Is it not worth being 
steady hearted for such a reward? 

Do not forget when you are denying and affirming that it 
is a certain mental state that you are attaining. Whoever 
is strong in his thoughts of Truth must show out a strong 
body. If you will attend well to your thoughts, your body 
and circumstances will be all right, just as they should be. 

Every thought we think is just as though it were put at 
interest, and it "bears fruit after its kind." Do you think 
loving thoughts of people? then every one loves you. Do 
you give every one you see a helpful thought? then you 
receive many helpful and uplifting thoughts. 

This is the way we can "bear one another's burdens." 

Do not be afraid of being too kind or too considerate or 
helping people too much. No! Give them of your true 
thoughts "good measure pressed down and running over." 



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In this way can you fulfill the law of Christ, the law of 
love. Turn your thoughts to Spirit and say, * ' It is sweet 
to do Thy bidding. I love to do as Thou hast commanded. 
Thy will is my will," and then when in this heavenly state 
of mind just love the person you thought you did not love, 
or treat your patient, the one who is the slowest in being 
healed, and see if the result will not be glorious. Let the 
Father's will be done in you. 

Spirit is omnipresent and omnipotent. Spirit is Sub- 
stance in all places and pervading all things. It can only 
be seen by the mental eye and handled through thought. 

By the use of true thoughts Spirit will do all things, for 
doing, you know, really means thinking. If you speak of 
a certain man and say he is a wicked man, you mean that 
he has wicked thoughts, because he proves that he has by 
the dreadful things which he does. If you tell me of a 
good man, you endeavor to show that he is good by the 
good things which he does. Now if you state that the 
Spirit is omnipresent you want to show that It is by prov- 
ing that It is always with you. The fruit of Spirit is love, 
joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith. Are these things 
always with you? If so, Spirit is with you indeed. 

You know there is no world to you except that of which 
you are conscious. The things that go on in the world every 
day that you know nothing of, are just the same to you as 
though they were not. If you are mourning at a funeral 
all that appears to you is grief; while at the wedding festiv- 
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bright, happy hopes; therefore, there is no world to you 
except what you are conscious of. Now unless you have 
the fruits of the Spirit, it is just the same to your conscious- 
ness as though the Spirit were absent; but in reality the 
Spirit is always present, ever present, omnipresent. This 
loving Spirit is omnipotent and can do all things. Now, of 
course, that does not mean that by some magic It will do 
your material work for you; not at all, but by the exercise 
of your thoughts that you can lay hold upon this ever pres- 
ent Spirit, and by It be enabled to do all that belongs to 
you to do. This Spirit is in you and through you, under 
you and over you, and It is working through you and by 
you, and for you to the accomplishing of all things; there- 
fore, it is proper for you to say, ' ' The Spirit can do all 
things" — for It can. 

Do I mean that if you have a bed to make, or a room to 
sweep, that you are to sit down in a chair and say that the 
Spirit must make your bed, or sweep your room? No, I do 
not mean that, for your bed would never be made in that 
way, neither would your room be swept; but I mean that 
you must declare for strength and energy for yourself, till 
the making of the bed and sweeping of the room are a 
pleasure and a joy to you. You enjoy the doing of them 
so much, that it is to you as though you were doing noth- 
ing, the doing is so easy. Thus did the Spirit do your 
work. Spirit is Strength; if you think of Spirit you will be 
strong. Spirit is Good, think of It and you will be good. 
Spirit is Peace, think of It and you will be peaceful. Much 



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meditation upon Spirit makes one strong, light, capable, 
peaceful and happy. There are always signs to show how 
one is thinking. 

" Let your communication be yea, yea, nay, nay;" that 
is, when you find yourself thinking an error thought, stop 
it by a sharp ' 'No ! ! " When you discover yourself thinking 
in a true and righteous way, say to that state of mind in a 
coaxing, loving way, ''Yes, yes, yes;" this will encourage 
and help and strengthen the good, meek, little thoughts 
that want to come so much if you will only let them. 

You know your thoughts are communicated to all around 
you, therefore see to it that nay is said to your error 
thought, and a strong and courageous yea to your good 
thoughts. 



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CHAPTER XV. 

THE SUPREMACY OF GOOD. 

" There is good for me and I ought to have it." Now 
if you said this positively, you certainly must have meant 
that the Good that was for you must be unmixed Good, 
or that in your Good there must be no mixture of evil. 
This would lead you to saying that the Good is Omnipres- 
ence. It really is logical to say that in omnipresent Good 
there can be no evil. Your words are the substance out of 
which your happiness or unhappiness is made. Always 
remember that spoken words and silent thoughts are one 
and the same thing. The word Good is substance, reliable 
and eternal. When one has a sure feeling of the Omni- 
presence of Good it is a natural thing for him to perceive 
that in reality there is no evil at all. 

My friends, we are all engaged in a common work, a 
common cause, viz. . working out our Problem of Life. 
The simplest answer to the problem is satis/action. We 
will be satisfied when we have peace of mind. The mortal 
thinks he will be satisfied when he has health of body, good 



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judgment as to affairs, and prosperity, and of course these 
are included in the word Good. If you think much upon 
the word Good you will find that your thoughts are naming 
some things which would seem good to you, and when you 
begin to name Good you are naming what will be the ori- 
gin of your good, for all symbolic things represent that 
which is from the Good. If you are constantly dwelling 
upon some good which you desire, your every movement, 
your every speech makes toward the visibility of that good. 
Now, of course, if we desire to see our Good made visible, 
we must start from our logical premise of the Omnipres- 
ence of the Good, and reason from it as accurately as 
though we were working out a problem in mathematics. 
So when we once say All is Good we must do all our think- 
ing from that premise — then we can make symbols to 
appear of whatever seems good for us; but, if, in our 
thoughts, we permit any other idea than the Omnipresence 
of the Good, we will make symbols to appear that would 
denote absence of the Good. Good thoughts are made 
manifest; error thoughts are made manifest. By good 
thoughts I mean true thoughts. The symbols often appear 
very promptly after our words are spoken. Our words can 
be spoken either audibly or silently. A thought is a word. 
Our experiences are the pictures of our thoughts. What is 
good is true. 

What is not good is not true. Of course for a thing to 
be good it must be universally good, else it is only good for 
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good; not good only in some places or for some people. 
You can easily think what would be good for every one. 
Peace of mind, love in the heart, congenial friends, a happy 
home, health, strength and prosperity. All these would 
be good for you and for me. 

Now, of course, the reality of everything is in Mind, 
therefore these things cannot come to us only as we have 
first thought them. If you want peace of mind you must 
have thoughts of peace; you must have no anxious nor trou- 
bled thoughts, no antagonistic thoughts to any one nor any- 
thing, your thoughts must be of peace. The word ' 'peace" is 
as oil poured upon the troubled waters. Your word of 
peace will bring peace out of your discord, happiness out of 
your unhappiness, "Blessed are the peacemakers." Do 
you want love in your heart? Well you can cultivate it. 
No matter how unloving you may be, no matter how cold 
or cynical or critical, you can cultivate love and melt these 
hard, cold things all away. God is Love, and with the un- 
quenchable fire of Love will He stay by you until your 
errors are all consumed. You will obtain great help from 
this affirmation : ' ' Divine Love has consumed all my errors." 
Say this in a grateful, rejoicing way and you will find your 
errors slipping away and the first thing you know they will 
be gone. 

Do you want congenial friends? Well you can have 
them; it is right that you should have friends. Of course 
when I say friend, I mean friend. The world's people call 
acquaintances friends, but that is not at all what I mean. 



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A friend is some one who endeavors to do you good; a 
friend will help bear your burden; a friend is some one who 
is willing to come to your assistance when you need his 
help. Friendship is a sacred thing. Jesus Christ was our 
friend. He came to teach the world how to live. He 
came to teach us how to work out our life problem. He is 
our friend to-day, and wise are we when we listen to his 
words of righteousness. Everything in nature is our friend 
if we will let it be. This affirmation will warm you and 
bring courage and faith to your heart: " I am a friend to 
every one and everything, and every one and everything is 
a friend to me." 

Never let yourself become so ambitious to be great as to 
neglect one little duty in thought, but always do first, and 
to your very best ability, just what your hand finds to do. 
Hands symbolize abilities, you know, and ' ' Charity begins 
at home;" therefore if you see an ugly trait in yourself 
treat yourself against it before you treat your neighbor for 
something you see in him. If one in your own family is 
struggling with a burden, help him or her bear it before you 
go away from your home to do some " foreign missionary 
work." 

It is in the simplest little loving things that we do in the 
retirement of our homes from which we get our best lessons 
and attain our greatest spiritual growth. I once heard of a 
great musician who always spent the day previous to his 
playing at concert in the practicing of nothing but the 
scales; the more perfectly he practiced his simple scales, 



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the more magnificently did he perform his grandest produc- 
tions. You will do your best healing after a period of heal- 
ing thoughts for every one of whom you think at all. You 
will do your best work of every kind after you have done 
your very best in all of your little thoughts. Your good 
little thoughts are like little children. "Of such are the 
Kingdom of Heaven." 



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CHAPTER XVI. 

THE FRUIT OF THE WORD. 

A lady writes: "I believe many a one now would and 
could believe in this healing power, but how is the question. 
During these warm days that debilitate, nursing my lovely 
baby, I long to be strong and think, as you do, there is no 
weakness." How shall you believe in the healing power? 
By simply perceiving that such a power exists and accept- 
ing the word that announces it. This earnest belief will 
bring you into an understanding of Spirit and Its ways. By 
this understanding can you do all things. "They that 
understand among the people shall do exploits." But you 
have not always believed, neither do you now know, the 
wonderful power and responsibility of the words which you 
speak. " By thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy 
words thou shalt be condemned." Whatever you believe 
you speak forth and you get the results of just the very 
words that you speak. If you believe and speak only of 
health, you will have only health; if you believe in both 
sickness and health, you will be sick sometimes and well 



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sometimes; if you believe very strongly in sickness you will 
be an out and out invalid; as you believe or as you think, 
so will you be. Now it is possible for you to change your 
beliefs and make yourself think differently. How? By the 
use of the proper words. " A right word, how good it is." 
Right words will bring you health. ' ' A man's word is his 
only burden." Speak right words and you will have no 
burdens. 

If you ' ' do not see what difference it makes what words 
you speak," then you will go right on being sick, or sick 
sometimes and well sometimes. Each word that you speak 
is planted and grows. The words of truth that you speak 
are the " w r heat;" the error words are the " tares." If you 
do not learn how to sift your seed and plant only " wheat " 
you will have to be content to reap both tares and wheat. 
You learned your multiplication table by saying it over and 
over, and you may have used it quite a while in your little 
sums before you really understood what you were doing; 
you brought your answers all right because you worked 
according to your rule. One day an understanding of what 
you were doing flashed upon you, and always after that you 
worked your example from an understanding of the rules 
and the truth of mathematics. 

You must begin in science by reasoning, and by the per- 
sistent speaking right words ivhether you understand them 
or not. You will understand them one day and your 
delight and joy at knowing that you were obedient when 
you did not understand will be the "Well done, good and 



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faithful servant. * * Enter into the joy of thy Lord." 
1 'The word is God." " In the beginning was the Word." 
We had the word to do as we pleased with it. Make "the 
beginning" for you now. 

Speak your true word and create for yourself just what 
you want. You not only have that privilege but that 
power. You want most of all to have health, do you not? 
Then speak the word for health till you have filled every 
cell and pore in your body with the word of health. Speak 
it till the quality of every drop of your blood is changed. 
Make it rich with the fervor of your speaking. Tone up 
your nerves till you are unconscious of having any, so strong 
can you make them. Think all the time of health and 
strength, health and strength and vitality. Say the words 
over and over and over. Charge your whole thought with 
them. Some people spring to the understanding of the 
truth of right speaking very quickly; they are quickly healed. 
Others say the words obediently, but with little perception 
of the truth of what they are doing; they are "slow cases." 
Others will not see it and will not do it, they ' i have ears to 
hear, but hear not." Is it not promised that "my words 
are life to them that find them? " How will you find them? 
By perceiving them, discerning them. The right words are 
"health to the flesh." "The word is God." "God is 
not a God of the dead but a God of the living." You only 
know the words of God when you understand how to keep 
health. Just see how much Jesus taught about life and 
health; how he healed the people when they would have faith 



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that he could speak the healing word; how he demonstrated 
life so fully that he took it up after they had crucified him. 
See how plainly he showed that it was the Father's will for 
us to be healthy and strong; for with his works of healing he 
said it was the Father's will that he was doing. Take your 
Bible, read all that it says about health — read everything 
about the "word," and see if you are not convinced that 
one of the purposes of the blessed book is to teach us that 
we can be well and strong, and that it is right for us to be 
well and strong, and that we really must be well and strong 
if we want to honor God. 

Do not have any self-condemnation that you have not 
always spoken truly. No, leave all that; "let the dead 
past bury its dead," but begin now to speak truly. Now is 
the accepted time. It is always now. Be obedient now. 

When you set out to speak only true words, when you 
deliberately watch your thoughts and stop every one that 
intends to think either of sickness or debility, or nervous- 
ness, or fear, or anxiety, or sorrow, or poverty, you do not 
have time for much else, do you? Well, it is with " all 
thy heart, all thy soul, all thy strength, all thy might," 
that we are commanded to worship God. (God means the 
Good). This simply means, think about the Good with 
all your thoughts. Has any one accomplished this? No, 
but many are making wonderfully rapid strides toward it, 
and they can testify to the joy and peace that come with 
so thinking, and the health that is their reward. 

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bear one another's burdens. What are burdens? Wrong- 
words and their accompanying results. So you must deny 
away error not only for yourself but for every one whom 
you hear speak error, and even for all mankind. You 
would not be happy to be well yourself and know that 
other people were sick; or you could not be at peace your- 
self while you knew any other people were weak and nerv- 
ous. You would not enjoy your plenty while you knew 
any others to be in poverty. 

Jesus Christ came to save the world from these things. 
We were told to go into all the world and preach the gos- 
pel to every creature. How else could you do this except 
by your thought or your word? You would be glad to have 
any one help you, would you not? "Do unto others as you 
would be done by." Say, " I deny sickness for myself and 
for every one in the universe." Deny away everything you 
do not want. Affirm everything you do want. The fruit 
of your lips shall be created for you. You are not puzzled 
to know what the true words are, of which you are always 
to speak, are you? The true words are the words of the 
Spirit, viz. : love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, 
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Rotherham in his 
translations, has also found graciousness, faithfulness, meek- 
ness and self-control. Do you think that if you always try 
to see these virtues in yourself and others, that you will be 
condoning evil? Well, you will not; you will only call 
these into manifestation and extinguish the errors. 

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not cultivating love of the Good. And don't you know that 
Love is to melt all the errors away? It will do it. Try it 
and prove it for yourself. 

If it is hard for you to demonstrate over some people and 
some things, you must know that you needed that very 
thing to make you strong. A perfect character is a strong 
character. A perfect character must not be lacking in one 
thing. You build your character by your thoughts. So 
examine your thoughts and wherever you see yourself lack- 
ing, there is the place to strengthen. If you were going to 
take a voyage on the ocean you would want the ship's car- 
penter to go over the vessel and strengthen the weak places, 
would you not? You would want to feel sure that you were 
going to be carried safely over the sea. 

As soon as you have the least little desire to know Truth, 
you have ' ' set sail " or started out on a voyage. Now are 
you going to be wrecked by the first little squall that comes 
up, or are you intending to go in a strong ship? A strong 
ship is what you want, of course, therefore you must 
strengthen the weak places in your character until you be- 
come perfect. "Whole every whit." 

If you are sick be determined to get well. Rid yourself 
of every belief of sickness, and in doing this, you will also 
strengthen your courage, your faith and your will. The 
ship might be lost at sea if 07ie weak place were neglected; 
so you will fail to form a perfect character if you con- 
sciously neglect to strengthen one point. Jesus Christ tells 
us, and so does Paul, what things to cultivate to make us; 



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perfect. Don't you love to watch the children grow? 

Just so will it be a delight to you to see your perfect 
character being formed. Never, never scold yourself be- 
cause you do not grow faster, and never waste any time in 
self-condemnation, but just lovingly and cheerfully do your 
best all the time. If you find you have made a mistake, 
forgive yourself immediately and say, " Well, I'll do better 
next time." 

Never feel that anything you have to demonstrate over is 
an evil, because it is not. It is just the thing you need to 
make you strong. You know the blessings are promised to 
"them that overcome." As long as you have nothing to 
try your strength, you do not know how strong you are or 
what you are capable of doing; but when you do have 
something to overcome, you have an opportunity of proving 
your strength. If you are sick you have the opportunity to 
use your word, your faith, your courage and perseverance 
to speak yourself well. 

If you are poor, speak the word of bounty till your daily 
needs are provided for. 

If you feel ignorant, speak intelligence for yourself. 

If you lack good judgment or are vacillating, speak 
strength and wisdom. 

If you feel that you allow other people to influence you 
into doing or not doing things, against the dictates of your 
own judgment, speak yourself free from their mentality and 
affirm strength and sound judgment for yourself. No mat- 
ter what you are, you can be just what you want to be if 



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you will speak your word in faith and understanding long 
enough. 

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteous- 
ness; and all these things shall be added unto you." God 
is Spirit, so the kingdom of God is the kingdom of Spirit. 
Righteousness is right thinking, or thinking the thoughts of 
Spirit. After we think right thoughts all things are set 
straight for us. If the things are not set straight we have 
not yet thought exactly the right thoughts. All things mani- 
fest in us are the result of our thoughts. Hence — "Noth- 
ing is secret that shall not be made manifest; neither any 
thing hid that shall not be known and come abroad." 

Do you think that you can think selfish, avaricious, lust- 
ful, uncharitable, revengeful, deceitful or cruel thoughts 
and nobody know it? Well, indeed, you cannot. Every- 
thing that comes to you in your life is either the result of 
your own thoughts or the thoughts of some person or per- 
sons by whom you are influenced. Therefore, you must 
purify your own thoughts and strengthen yourself against, 
in any way, being influenced by other people's thoughts. 
My word for this is: "The Spirit of Truth surrounds me 
and guards me and defends me from within and without.''' 

Little children are made sick from the thoughts of other 
people. Tell your baby that no error thought can affect it. 
That it is folded around and guarded by the Truth. God 
is Truth. God is Good. Baby is folded around by the 
Good. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

THE POWER OF BLESSING. 

Do you ever allow your thoughts to dwell upon the word 
bless? One of the meanings which Webster gives to this 
word is, "to wish happiness to;" therefore, when you bless 
any one, you wish them happiness. So do you not see 
that if you bless your enemies that you are really wishing 
them happiness? and when you wish them happiness you 
have forgiven them. Perhaps some one has done you a 
great wrong, and you have tried to wipe away the memory 
by your denials and affirmations, with seeming failure, for 
the memory still remains; perhaps you feel now that some 
one is not acting justly to you, and it seems so hard for you 
to bear his conduct or forgive him for it; well, just bless 
him, and I promise you it really will set you free. I 
know, for I have tried it. Say to such an one, "I bless 
you! I bless you! " Take this one mentally close to your 
heart and hold him there and say over and over, ' ' I bless 
you, I bless you." Until you try it you cannot have an 
idea how much good it will do you. It will melt down all 



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your malice, revenge, cruelty and unforgiveness more 
quickly than any other method that you can use. You will 
cleanse your own thoughts more effectually than by denials. 

When we are once convinced that a thing is for our good, 
we do not find it hard to do. On the other hand, we love 
to do it. This might be one of the meanings to "my yoke 
is easy and my burden is light." Jesus Christ loved the 
people whom he taught and he loves us, hence it is very 
plain that what he told us to do was for our good and for 
no other reason. When he told us to bless it was because 
he wanted us to be happy and at peace with ourselves, and 
he knew just what sweet peace we would realize if we 
would but bring ourselves to the saying of "I bless you." 
It is a lovely word to say to the people you meet on the 
street or in the street car, who look tired and unhappy. 
The little children will look at you and smile every time 
you say it to them. 

11 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness 
and all these things shall be added unto you." God is 
Spirit, so the kingdom of God must be the kingdom of 
Spirit. Seek to enter into this kingdom. "They that 
seek shall find. " ' ' To them that knock it shall be opened. " 
Any word of Spirit will help you into this kingdom, but the 
word Spirit Itself, will surely let you in. It has been said 
that the word Spirit cannot be defined; but God is Spirit 
and "God is Good," therefore Spirit is the kingdom in 
which we will find all good. 

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peace, intelligence, knowledge of the deep things of God, 
perfect health and all good of every conceivable kind. If 
you were going to make a copy of a picture, " the original" 
of which you admired very much, and to which you had 
welcome access, you would not first make a copy of an- 
other's copy, would you? Of course you would not. This 
other copy might be very good indeed, but still there would 
be imperfections and blemishes in it which are not in the 
original, and you would unconsciously copy them as well 
as the true points, and they would become impressed upon 
your mental vision so that you would have much work to 
undo, when you came to make your copy of the true pic- 
ture. In just this way do we want to take away from our 
mental vision any but a perfect character; or any words but 
perfect words. 

Just as it is always economy to buy the best of anything, 
so it is wisdom for us to dwell upon none but true words, 
and have no ideal before us but a perfect character. We 
are welcome to use the best words, the truest words, the 
most beautiful words, the strongest words. We are wel- 
come to use the words which will straightway let us into 
the kingdom of heaven, therefore we are " foolish virgins" 
if we do not keep our lamps filled with true words. 

We are perfectly welcome to attain the perfect character 
of Jesus Christ; he even invites us to follow him; he does 
everything he can to help us and encourage us; everything 
he can to strengthen and cheer us. He is always with us, 
to guide us into all Truth. Who would not take him for a 



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friend? Who would not strive to attain his character? 
Who would not want to enter into the kingdom where he 
dwells? That perfect kingdom contains riches untold, gems 
most rare, gold most fine and treasures more precious than 
are found in any other kingdom. This kingdom is heaven, 
and it is to be found "within men." They enter into it by 
thinking true thoughts and speaking true words. 

Sometimes we take this kingdom of heaven by storm or 
violence, so much do we want to realize it. We often 
speak words for what we want to see or realize, as though 
the thing were already here. We want to see our words 
" fruit " for us. We want to believe that we have already 
received, so do I make my strong affirmation, " I am in the 
kingdom of God, and all its treasures are mine." 

1 'Divine satisfaction" is the word that contains all the other 
things which you desire to have, and satisfaction will never 
come to you until you have made for yourself a strong and 
steadfast character. You build your character by your con- 
stant thoughts. The more truthful your thoughts, the 
more beautiful a character will you develop. This building 
of a beautiful character for yourself may be done through 
much tribulation; for instance, you might have been at one 
time of a very cross, peevish disposition, and might have 
seemed to have no control over your temper at all. Then 
you might have heard something of the Science, and a 
desire sprang up in your heart to live the Science, which 
would of course mean that you must overcome your ugly 
temper. It might take you months and years to accom- 



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plish this, and yet by meditation upon the right words 
you surely would succeed; you would not only succeed in 
overcoming your temper, but you would be strengthened in 
every way. There is no one thing that develops a strong 
perfect nature more than does the steadfast determination 
to overcome an ugly temper. A steadfast determination to 
do the right thing, a strong will that will not be moved or 
shaken from an endeavor to do the right thing, will change 
the entire character from a weak, vacillating quality of 
mind to a brave, courageous and steadfast quality. "Be 
ye steadfast in the Lord," means be steadfast in your right 
thinking according to true Being. 



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CHAPTER XVIII. 

RESURRECTED THROUGH CHEERFULNESS. 

Lately the latter part of the " Apostles' Creed " has been 
ringing and ringing in my ears, viz. : * ' I believe in the Holy 
Ghost; the holy Catholic Church; the communion of saints; 
the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and 
the life everlasting. Amen." 

How much more do I believe those beautiful words now, 
than I did then! I not only now believe in the Holy 
Ghost, but in Its omnipresent power. 

Catholic means Universal, and it is the Church Universal 
in which I now believe. Our Church must be in our own 
hearts. The kingdom of heaven is within men, so is the 
Church. Holy means perfectly pure, so the holy Catholic 
Church means, that when all men have perfectly pure 
hearts, will the kingdom of heaven come on earth. 

A saint is one whose thoughts are centered upon holy 
things; the communion of saints is where two or more to- 
gether hold their thoughts upon some great truth. 

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you? No, for there is no death, you know. Everything is 
here and now. 

The forgiveness of sins we all must believe in, or the 
resurrection can never take place. You know that almost 
all people who are sick either believe they are now, or have 
been, great sinners. 

The resurrection is a very important thing for you to un- 
derstand, and unless you are perfectly sound and well in 
every part, you do not believe in the resurrection from the 
dead. While there is any sickness in you, of any kind, you 
are believing just that much in death, and your ailing sense 
must be removed. You have lurking somewhere in your 
thoughts a belief in death. Get rid of it! Just as you 
think, your body will show forth. As you become more 
and more conscious of Truth, and more and more spiritu- 
ally minded, so will your body become more spiritualized 
and healthy in its manifestation; but you may be very sure 
that there is a belief in death to be driven out as long as 
there is the least little bit of disease or inharmony in the 
body. You can easily prove to yourself when you really 
believe the resurrection by having your body in such a 
healthy state that you will never remember that you have 
it, only as you use it. 

You never remember about your body when you feel 
well; it is only when you are tired, or sick or in pain, that 
you think of it; therefore, you are in your healthiest state 
when you are entirely forgetful of it. If you have perfect 
sight, you do not think of your eyes, but you are always 



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reminded of them when you are not seeing what you want 
to see, or are suffering with them in any way. Therefore, 
until you are in such a healthy state that you are regardless 
of your body, you still need to deny a belief in death and to 
declare for ''Life Everlasting" and perfect health and 
strength. Now when I say be " regardless of your body," 
I do not mean be neglectful of it. These are two entirely 
different words. By " regardless " I mean that you do not 
have to consider your body. You can do whatever you 
want to do, and ought to do, and you do not have to stop 
to consider your body. You do not have to say, "I would 
like to do so and so if I only had the strength;" " I cannot 
do so and so on account of my heart;" " I cannot eat so and 
so because I cannot digest it." So until you can do what- 
ever you want to do, or ought to do, you must continue to 
treat for health. 

Now to be neglectful of your body is quite another thing. 
Paul says, ' ' I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the 
mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacri- 
fice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable 
service." So take the best possible care of your body that 
you can, for the glory of God. Go over it as you bathe, 
with the words " eternal Life, " or " Health secure," or 
Strength omnipotent." Put some word of Life or Health 
into every part of your body until you are in a happy glow. 
Resurrect every part of your body, until health only does it 
show. 

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living sacrifice, so Paul says, and not a dead or sick 
sacrifice. 

Holy means perfectly pure. Do you not see how the 
whole teaching of the Scriptures makes for health? 

It is said that if one finds the true way of getting health, 
that he has found the way to obtain everything else. What 
can one not accomplish if he has health? And what can he 
accomplish if he has not health? So do you not see the 
importance of your having perfect health? I was taught to 
say, " I am perfectly sound and well in every part. I am 
alive with the life of Spirit. I am strong with the strength 
of Spirit. I am healthy through and through, and I trust 
in God." 

I can never tell you how much these words have been to 
me. They are a tonic one never can take too often, and 
the oftener they are repeated, the more they mean, and the 
more do they strengthen and heal. If you do not realize 
that you are every whit whole, say these words. 

Say them in a strong, courageous, energetic way, and 
see if they are not the best tonic you have ever taken. 

You know, do you not, that when I am speaking of health 
or healing that I am meaning mental healing? Your body 
is only a reflection of your thoughts. When you treat for 
strength, I mean make your thoughts strong in the Truth, 
and do not be weak or wavering. When you know that 
you ought to do a thing, be strong enough to do it, and do 
it right off, too. 

When you treat for health it is to make your thoughts 



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healthy and pure. It is all for your thoughts, and the body 
comes along afterward and shows forth what the thoughts 
have been. 

You find it a great pleasure to watch the effect of your 
true thinking, do you not? It is wonderful what a delight 
the holding of true words becomes. David said, "I will 
bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be 
in my mouth." The Lord is our own true Being. David 
sang praises to this Lord, and from his line came the Christ. 
So will the Christ be born in us if we will as faithfully 
sing our praises. 

Thinking of David brings to me another sweet singer, 
one of the beautiful healers of to-day. Reports have come 
to me of his lovely healing, from the people of his city, and 
when lately he was in Chicago I questioned him as to his 
method in treatments. He told me that his best cases 
were when he had sung his treatments. 

Did you ever try that way? You will find that you can 
do your thinking or mental speaking in a singing tone, and 
that it will have the very healthiest effect upon you. You can 
mentally sing same little verse or hymn whose words you 
love, and they will keep you happy all day long, while you are 
doing work or are in any position where you cannot sing 
aloud. Here is one of my favorite songs of self-treatment: 

"God is love; His mercy brightens 
All the paths in which we rove. 
Bliss He wakes and woe He lightens; 
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We have never sung enough. Let us sing more. 

My eyes have just chanced (?) to fall upon the following 
in a newspaper: " Professor Tarchanow, of St. Petersburg, 
lectured recently on 'The Influence of Music on the Human 
Organism," and affirmed that music is of the greatest serv- 
ice in the treatment of disease, and that, by the proper use 
of music, the system can be tuned like a musical instru- 
ment. * * * The Russian savant expressed the con- 
viction, that a time will come when music in the hands of 
scientifically trained physicians will be acknowledged to be 
an agent of great power for the relief of suffering. * * * 
1 How can music fail to relieve, ' exclaims Tarchanow, ' when 
a series of cases has proved that it is the most powerful 
regulator of men's moods and feelings which dominate 
many sides of the psychical and physical life of the 
organism? ' " 

I, myself, had an experience when I was a young school 
girl, that makes me believe that our Russian friend is right. 
It was the first time I took "laughing gas." I went to the 
first dentist in Philadelphia that I had heard of, who ad- 
ministered "laughing gas," to have a tooth extracted. I 
was very nervous and frightened about it, but when he put 
me in the chair he said, "Now do not be afraid, for there 
is nothing to be afraid of. Just imagine that you are going 
to the opera, and see if you will not hear some beautiful 
music." The next thing I knew was, that my friend who 
had gone with me, was shaking me and urging me to sit up, 
for all was over; but I did not want to move, for there was 



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such heavenly music for me to listen to, that I was in a 
state of ecstacy almost. Suddenly the music ceased. It 
was from a music box, and the dentist said they "often had 
to stop the music to get the patients to arouse." Several 
times after that I went to other dentists and took gas, and 
in every instance suffered intensely. Surely harmony of 
every kind is divinely appointed. 

Cultivate the habit of cheerfulness. Our demonstrations 
in ourselves are not half demonstrations unless we are 
cheerful about them. 4 ' But thou, when thou fastest, anoint 
thine head, and wash thy face, that thou appear not unto 
men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret; and thy 
Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." 

If there is anything in yourself to overcome, do not be 
down-hearted over it so that every one will know it, but be 
heroic enough to do your demonstrating in private as much 
as you possibly can, and you will be rewarded by such com- 
plete demonstration over yourself that every one will see 
and know of the power of your word of truth. You know, 
do you not, that cheerful people are a blessing to have 
around? One gloomy person can cast a damper over the 
happiness of the whole family; but "a merry heart doeth 
good like a medicine." Now "a medicine" does not mean 
necessarily something to swallow down your throat, but it 
can mean " a remedy." And I am sure we all know that 
cheerfulness remedies lots of things. A cheerful person 
makes sunshine in the home on the very cloudiest day. 

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if there is cheerfulness there. Troubles become very small 
the minute that we laugh at them. 

If anything annoys you just be brave enough to laugh at 
it, and lo! it is gone. If you will summon up in yourself 
the courage and power to laugh at troubles when every- 
thing seems against you, you may know that you will soon 
be able to work miracles; indeed, you have worked a mira- 
cle if you can laugh over anything that once would have 
made you weep. You can do all this by just simply realiz- 
ing that the Good is absolute. This will resurrect you, 
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CHAPTER XIX. 

CONSCIOUSNESS OF OMNISCIENCE. 

1 ' Good hunting-dogs never give over the game till they 
have got their prey." My eye has just lighted upon these 
words, and instantly I see that we are ''hunters." We are 
seeking to find our true selves, or " our game." The dogs 
intensely enjoy "the hunt," so may we. If the game were 
given to the dogs, there would be nothing for them to seek, 
therefore nothing for them to do. If God were entirely 
manifest, there would be no seeking for us to do; there 
would be no new treasures for us to find; no new countries 
in the spiritual realm for us to discover. With nothing to 
do, we would stagnate. 

Unless we are conscious of possessing a thing, it is just 
the same to us as though we did not have it. God is all in 
all. Our work is to become conscious of this fact. This 
is why we pray; that we may become conscious of having 
the thing we pray for. That is why we treat; that we may 
become conscious that the desired condition is manifest. 
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from our knowledge of Omnipresence, "it is," but we do 
not prove that "it is " unless we have made it manifest to 
our own consciousness. 

Now you say that God is Good; is omnipresent. If you 
were conscious that God is Good and Omnipresent, you 
would never know sin, sickness or death in any form; if you 
were conscious of Life, you would never even hear of death. 
1 ' Make me conscious of Thee and Thine Omnipotence, Om- 
niscience, and Omnipresence," is a good prayer. 

If you were conscious of Omnipresence, you would have 
no fears nor doubts. If you were conscious of Omnipres- 
ence you would never fail to heal your patient nor bring any 
desired thing to pass. You have faith in the Good; if you 
liad not you would never enter into any undertaking, would 
not expect to wake in the morning, nor get to any journey's 
«nd; but you are not conscious of your faith. — -"Make me 
conscious of my faith in Thee." 

You know that there is power in your healing word; if 
you did not, you would never undertake to speak a healing 
word. — " Make me conscious of faith in the power of my 
word." You have faith in God; you have faith in man; be- 
come conscious of your faith and dominion is yours. 

The trying of your faith will strengthen your will. One 
lady told me lately that she was learning so much from my 
affirmation, "I consciously will to do Thy will." If you 
hold those words, you will soon be shown whether or not 
your will is in accord with the Divine will. — "Not my will, 
but Thine be done." 



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When you find that your will is apart from the will of 
God, say to it, "I do not know you; but it is Thy will, O 
Father, that I love to do." What you love to do, you 
surely will do. Be in love with God. "Love lightens 
labor." The will of God is easy for you to do when you 
love to do it. What is the will of God? To speak, think 
and live the Truth! 

Preaching the gospel, healing the sick, casting out 
demons, and raising the dead are the results of consciously 
speaking Truth. Therefore to become conscious of Truth 
is your life work. Doing is very easy after you consciously 
know how to do; indeed, the doing then becomes nothing 
at all, it is so very easy. It will be nothing for you to walk 
on the water after you know how. You can easily raise a 
Lazarus after you know how. 

Omniscience is a word that will bring you into under- 
standing. "I am consciously one with Omniscience," is a 
prayer of faith of which worlds can be framed. After you 
know the Truth, it is easy to speak It; therefore seek to 
know the Truth. It is for you to know. Know It, and you 
shall be free. 

The very best way for you to overcome all error in your- 
self, is to keep your thoughts on Principle instead of your- 
self. If you meditate intently on God, and of Man's one- 
ness with God, you will forget yourself and become lost or 
absorbed in this oneness. This is the very surest way to 
overcome selfishness and all beliefs of error. You can be 
in the world and perform all your duties, and yet all the 
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time be conscious that you are Spiritual, and dealing with 
Spirit only. 

Jesus Christ said you must be in the world but not of it. 
Mr. Moody's example of this is, ' 'A ship lives in the water, 
but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom." 
So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets 
into them, they sink. If you look upon the world and your 
affairs as being material and full of evil, they will overwhelm 
you; but if you see all things as Spiritual, you will be 
enabled to handle them all with capability and efficiency. 

To be spiritually minded does not mean that you must 
withdraw from your business and live a hermit's life. No; 
it means to stand right where your duty is, and to do it lov- 
ingly; to regard it as sent from God, to be grateful for the 
ability and strength to do it; to do it so well that in the do- 
ing you develop efficiency undreamed of by you, and 
strength and power that will serve you forever after. If 
you could not be Spiritually minded just where your duty 
lies, you could not be spiritually minded in any situation or 
under what you might think the most favorable circum- 
stances. It is bravest always to do your best just where 
you are, rather than to run away and hide somewhere, 
away from all obligations. 

To love to do the Father's will is the only doing worth 
while. — "Lord, I put my hand in Thine, and Thou dost lead 
me." — This attitude of mind will relieve you of all responsi- 
bility. If you realize that God is the only Presence, you 
will be conscious of the fact that you do nothing, but God 



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It is that doeth all things through you. In God you live 
and move and have your being. Be conscious of this, and 
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CHAPTER XX. 

TRUST IN GOD NOW. 

Have you ever thought of how surely the morning fol- 
lows the night? of how very sure the morning is to come? 
The night (the time of trial) is only for a little while; the 
day, the beautiful light, dawns in all its brightness in the 
fulness of time, neither can it be kept from dawning. 

In times of trial the only thing for us to do, is to do what 
seems to us to be right, and then leave all the rest to the 
omnipotent Ruler, who guides and governs in just the right 
way, and who always doeth all things well. What a won- 
derful peace will come to you if you will really trust in God! 
How beautiful is the trust of a little child! How sure it is 
that it will be cared for. No doubt nor anxiety ever crosses 
its mind. ' * Except ye become as little children, ye shall 
not enter into the kingdom of heaven." 

You must trust in the Good if you want peace and joy and 
gladness. Heaven is peace. You cannot be in heaven if 
anything disturbs your peace. Let nothing disturb you, 
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your thoughts to It, and acknowledge It, and realization of 
It will surely be yours. 

One lady says she does not know how to tell when she is 
"led of the Spirit." She does not know when she herself 
thinks of a thing to do, or whether or not the Spirit has 
"thought her." 

Could you not settle that question, my friend, if you were 
to acknowledge only one Mind? if you were to acknowledge 
that every good thought that comes to you is from this one 
source? You know Jesus said, " Believest thou not that I 
am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I 
speak unto you I speak not out of myself: but the Father 
that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Yet you know 
that he was continually going about doing good. He 
acknowledged but one Mind. "I and my Father are one." 

You know that you are immortal. You are acquainting 
yourself with God day by day. You are learning to know 
that your God is altogether Good, and from this knowledge 
you are unfolding and unfolding your own real self, which 
is good also, because created of God. You do not realize 
from day to day how very fast you are increasing in knowl- 
edge and grace. You are so happy in thinking your Spirit 
thoughts, that you do not try to recall your past belief of 
ignorance, nor should you. You do not even try to recall 
happy yesterday. All the past, no matter how happy, is as 
nothing to you compared to the glad joyous now. Now is 
the time that you realize the goodness of God. Now is the 
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clear. You know that now are you Spiritual, that now all 
things are yours. " Now are we the sons of God." 

It is a blessed thing for the earnest Truth-seekers to know 
that they surely will find the true God. ' ' They that seek 
shall find." How many times have our ideas of God 
changed? And with each change the teacher within tells 
us we are coming nearer to the true God. "My percep- 
tion of God is clear; my realization of God is complete," is 
a good affirmation. 

An earnest Truth-seeker is one who is determined to know 
the Truth for its own sake. ' ' Seek first the kingdom of 
God and his righteousness. " To seek God and his right- 
eousness means to try to think the thoughts of God. Seek- 
ing to know the truth about God and about one's self is the 
only thing that profiteth. Health secure is only to be found 
in God. 

Many a so-called "wicked man " seems very healthy and 
strong and hardy, but his good health is only a belief. He 
has only for a time had a belief of health, which in a few 
moments can change into a belief in illness. 

Many very religious people are sick for years, and they 
think they are chastened by the Lord, but you know that 
could not be, for the "Lord is the health of his people," 
and He could not be both health and ill-health at the same 
time, for the same fountain cannot send forth both bitter 
water and sweet at once. 

If you think or say that you believe God sends sickness 
upon you, you will be sick most likely until you change 






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your thoughts from such error into true thinking. It is not 
a special mark of favor from God to any one for them to 
be sick, oh, no! it only means that as long as they believe 
God sends sickness on them, they will be sick and suffer, 
for the law is, that according to their words will they be 
either justified or condemned. Did you ever notice how 
these people who say that God has sent their sickness upon 
them, try to get out of bearing it? how they will have doc- 
tors and consultations of doctors, and how eagerly they will 
swallow all that is offered them, and undergo all sorts of 
operations to try to get health, and thus really fight their 
God, who they say has sent this sickness upon them? Now 
do you know that they never believed at all that their God 
did this? indeed they did not, for they never would under- 
take to frustrate His plans. What man or woman is there 
who would fight the great God? None. All of these peo- 
ple are self-deceived when they say God has sent sickness 
upon them. They are simply mesmerized by the race be- 
liefs and do not stop to think for themselves. Every living 
soul should know that he is a child of the good God, who 
never gives anything but good gifts to his children. 

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, 
and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom 
is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." If it 
is good gifts that God gives to His children and He is not 
variable, why of course He cannot send evil things. It 
would be well for us if we would always remember the truth 
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1 ' If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, 
and take up his cross and follow me." 

Jesus said all is good. Man has crossed that statement 
with the opposite, all is not good. We can never follow 
Jesus until we take up that cross and deny the former beliefs 
of evil. Do you not see how plainly he says it is man who 
has put the cross there? ' ' If any man will come after me, 
let him .... take up his cross." Do you not hear him say / 
have made no cross with untruth over Truth, with evil over 
Good, or with matter over Spirit. I see the Truth. I 
worship God in Spirit and in Truth, therefore my yoke is 
easy and my burden is light. ' ' Come unto me all ye that 
labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." 

' 'Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, and ye shall 
find rest unto your souls." Do you not see how plainly he 
shows that with him there was no cross? The cross is only 
in the carnal mind. The one who has a clear perception 
of the Truth sees no cross; he sees only the truth of the all- 
ness of Good, the allness of Life, the allness of Spirit, the 
Omnipresence of God. This is the straight gate and nar- 
row way which leadeth unto Life. It is following the ' 'cross- 
roads " which lead us unto death. Man must take up his 
cross and follow Jesus Christ if he wants life and peace and 
health. The Jews did not believe his Truth teaching, they 
crossed it with their own error beliefs, and sought to kill 
him on their cross. Did they succeed? No! His Truth 
made their earth tremble, split their rocks, rolled away the 
stone from the sepulchre which they had built, caused the 



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world to be re-dated and has increased and increased in 
glory until to-day all the nations are asking who is Christ 
and where may he be found? 

Take up the cross of denial of Good, my friends, and 
think only the true thoughts that lead to life eternal. 

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. 
You can only get the mind of Christ Jesus by speaking true 
words and thinking true thoughts. The tongue, the unruly 
member, must be checked in its error speaking; the thoughts 
must be trained into true thinking. If we want to realize 
life and health, we must speak the words of life and health, 
the words of Jesus. ' ' The words that I speak unto you, 
they are spirit and they are life." 

Do you not know that all that you are comes from your 
words? You think in words, you know, so that thoughts 
silent and audible are one and the same thing; they are all 
words. Now it is true words that we are to think and 
speak, and this is the same thing exactly as eating the flesh 
and drinking the blood of Christ. Jesus was speaking of 
Truth when he said, ' ' This is my blood of the new testa- 
ment shed for many for the remission of sins." ''This cup 
is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you." 
Testament means testimony. People who testify make a 
testament. The old testament, or the people who had tes- 
tified before Jesus, taught laws and ordinances; that it was 
what a man did or did not do that justified or condemned 
him. Jesus came and overturned the old teaching; made 
the thoughts or words the responsible of men. He "shed" 



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his thoughts or his blood abroad, so that men might hear 
his teaching, and "remit " their error thoughts and words, 
or forgive them; for their error words give true words. He 
told them to eat his body and drink his blood, which means 
eat and drink his teachings. 

It is only those who are in the " upper room," only those 
who have a "guest chamber" where the Spirit of Truth 
may visit, only those who carry the cleansing ' ' pitcher of 
water," who may know the real meaning of these blessed 
teachings of Jesus, the Christ. 

All may know them. God is no respecter of persons. 
i l Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you 
free." 

The Spirit of Truth will teach you all things. They that 
seek shall find. 

"I and my Father are one." The more we use the 
words of Jesus, the plainer does the meaning of his words 
appear to us. The use of them can be likened unto dig- 
ging into a gold mine, the more we dig, the more gold we 
find. So the more we handle the words of Jesus, the more 
truthful and helpful and beautiful do we find them. "I and 
my Father are one." Plainly do we see that Jesus meant 
that the Father is that "one." Can you not hear him say 
"Mind is all. I am the idea of that Mind." The mind 
works through its Idea according to Its will. The idea is 
nothing of itself, it belongs in and to the mind only. Shall 
the foot go whithersoever it will? No, it must go where 
the soul wills it. Can the hand write anything of itself? 



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No! it knows nothing to write; it is only obedient to the 
thoughts. Of themselves the hand and the foot are noth- 
ing; they are useful and their works beautiful, only as 
directed by the thoughts. I of myself can do nothing; the 
Father within me, he doeth the works. Happy are the 
meek, for they listen to the teaching of the Holy Spirit. 

" O Lord, my God, do Thou Thy holy will; 
I will lie still. 

I will not stir, lest I forsake Thine arm, 
And break the charm 

Which lulls me, clinging to my Father's breast, 
To perfect rest." 

If you are meek and lowly of heart you will hear the gen- 
tle, loving, patient, wise Father teaching you. It will do 
all things for you. It will guide you step by step. It will 
smooth the way for you. It will speak the words for you. 
It will heal you. If you are meek and lowly to this blessed 
voice, God will be manifest in you indeed. What higher 
honor can you ask than to be used by the Holy Spirit to do 
Its will. Only trust and It will use you. 



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CHAPTER XXL 

THE TRUTH THAT MAKES FREE. 

One lady says she does not understand the words in the 
last part of the forty-eighth verse of the thirteenth chapter 
of The Acts: "And as many as were ordained to eternal 
life believed." Truth is from the beginning. It is only 
logic and reason to know that always was it known, or un- 
derstood, that whoever believed Truth would realize Truth; 
and of course they who do not believe Truth will not real- 
ize it. Every one knows that he who understands the 
truth of mathematics will realize benefits from his knowl- 
edge; he who remains in ignorance of the truth of mathe- 
matics must abide by the losses incurred through his ignor- 
ance. Now from the beginning it was ordained that who- 
ever would believe the Truth understanding^ should have 
an ever present consciousness of life and love and joy and 
peace, and of course whoever does not believe Truth will 
not have this beautiful realization. All can believe the 
Truth, all can know life eternal. 

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of having. Your faith is reality, your doubt is shadow, or 
the veil that hides the real from your consciousness. Of 
course the veil must be rent before you will consciously see 
clearly. 

Doubt has always been looked upon as an evil or an 
error in us, but it is nothing of the kind ; for it is our very 
doubts that make us question and search, and it is our 
questioning that makes us, in a logical way, find out the 
truth about God, and after we find God according to the 
letter, realization of God in the Spirit will soon come to us. 

Now if you have questioned until you have, logically, 
arrived at the premise of the Omnipresence of the Good, 
you must stand there. Seemingly opposite appearances 
must not be noticed by you at all, and you will not notice 
them, for you are strong and of a good courage. Any one 
can trust in God when everything is going smoothly; any 
one can praise for health when feeling perfectly healthy and 
strong; any one can praise for prosperity when possessing a 
good bank account. All such people might be judging by 
"the sight of the eye," by appearances that in themselves 
have no substance, neither are derived from substance. 

It is one thing to possess a thing and another thing to 
know that you possess it. We always have had the good 
God, but we have not always consciously known it. We 
live and move and have our being in the good God, but we 
have not always been conscious that we do. The real in- 
telligence, within each one of us, tells us that God is Good. 
We all want to believe this, and we all want to prove it so, 



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and it is only fear that we will not so prove that ever makes 
us doubt. 

We are earnest Truth seekers. We want the Truth for 
Its own sake, and we will seek the Truth until we con- 
sciously both realize and demonstrate It. 

Do you not find it a pleasure to trust in the Good in the 
face of seeming opposites? Any one can trust in the Good 
and say "God is good," when the appearances all point that 
way. There is not even a little demonstration for such an 
one. But you want to accomplish something; you want to 
do and be something; you want to be a herald for the King; 
you want to be a Prince, the King's own son, and establish 
his kingdom on earth and your own heirship to it. You 
want to prove in the face of all opposites that God is Good. 
You are going to put forth all your dormant courage and 
bravery. You are going to strengthen and strengthen; you 
are going to become an athlete in the cause of your King. 
Nothing shall withstand your word. No obstacle can stay 
in your path; no sickness can arrest your progress; no 
ignorance can darken your way. No! your sharp sword of 
the word of Truth cuts down all barriers and pierces all 
clouds. God is Good. Good is God. "The Lord God, 
omnipotent, reigneth." 

Nothing can daunt your courage in speaking this Truth. 
You laugh in the face of all disaster, all sickness, all sorrow, 
and all sin. You know the Truth — you know it! You love 
to tell the Truth. You love to think the Truth. You love 
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It never is hard for you to speak the Truth, for you love 
to try your strength. 

You love to stretch the sinews of your mind and over- 
reach and overturn all appearances of evil. 

You love victory. 

You love power. 

You love to melt all evil appearances. 

You know by the speaking of your true word that you 
render glory unto God in the highest and peace unto man 
on earth. Peace on earth! Do you want to help bring it? 
Then speak your word, "God is Good." Peace on earth! 
Do you want to help demonstrate it? Then speak your 
word, "Health is omnipresent." Peace on earth! Do 
you want to help establish it? Then speak your word, ' ' O 
sin, you have no power." Peace on earth! Do you want 
to help prove it? Then speak your word, "O death you 
have no sting, O grave you have no victory! " Our God is 
altogether Good. Omnipresent and omnipotent is He. 
Hallelujah! shout for joy. "The Lord God omnipotent 
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CHAPTER XXII. 

THE KINGDOM IS WITHIN. 

"Medicine for the soul " is what some of the people of 
"the old world" called their spiritual teachings. And med- 
icine for the soul is all the medicine that it is ever worth 
while to give or take. Medicine is a "remedial agent." 
Of course the remedial agent must always be applied to the 
cause of the afo-ease, else the disease could never be really 
cured. No alleviation can be of much benefit, for, the cause 
still remaining, the disease is not only liable, but very apt 
to become apparent again at any time. 

Now as we have all proven that there is no causation of 
any kind in the physical but in the mental only, it follows 
that no medicine is needed for the physical, but that it is 
for the soul that the medicine is needed. 

The soul is that of you which thinks. The soul can be 
educated. Spirit does not think nor cannot be educated, for 
Spirit is Knowledge Itself. Spirit is Mind. One is ' « soul 
sick " when he is thinking thoughts other than health 
thoughts. 



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There is no disease of body except it is caused by sick 
thoughts. Sick thoughts are thoughts that are not in 
accordance with Principle. An ignorant thought can bring 
you disease of body as soon as a sinful thought. 

Suppose you know that you ought to do a certain thing; 
that your loyalty to Principle demands that you do it; but 
you are either afraid of some one person or afraid of the 
opinion of many people, so do not obey; or it may not suit 
you or be agreeable to you to obey, even though you know 
duty and justice demand that you do obey, but still you re- 
fuse. Directly you get heart disease. Why? The heart 
is a symbol of Love. Love always does what is right. 
Love is never afraid to obey or it never refuses to obey. 
Perfect Love casteth out all fear. If you want your heart 
to act perfectly, be not afraid to acknowledge the good and 
right at all times. Fear and anxiety will keep you awake 
at night. A harmonious physical condition cannot be the 
outcome of an inharmonious mental condition. Perfect 
harmony can only be attained through perfect righteousness. 

Perfect righteousness is a soul attainment, and is the 
result of a hunger and thirsting and earnest seeking of the 
soul to know its God. A soul does not get to know its God 
unless it voluntarily dwells upon the things of God, and puts 
the things of carnality out of remembrance. 

It is by the word of Truth that the soul mounts into hea- 
ven and to its God. "The kingdom of heaven is within 
men," "The King dwells in His kingdom." The word of 
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dwells the King in whose possession health, peace and all 
good are. 

Oh, sin sick soul, seek to know thy God, thy King, thy 
Health Giver. Look not without thee for any good gift to 
come to thee, for all good is hid within thyself, and thy 
good cannot come to thee in any other way than through 
thy own recognition that thy heaven is within thee. 



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CHAPTER XXIII. 

TRUTH IS FREEDOM. 

11 Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you 
free." 

Now what is Truth? It must be that it is a freeing Prin- 
ciple; consequently whoever desires to be made free must 
put himself in harmony with that Principle. To know ab- 
solute Truth is to be absolutely free, therefore it follows 
that none, consciously, know absolute Truth. 

One of the reasons why more is not known of Truth is 
because we have not searched for Truth with a desire to 
know It for Itself. We have received teaching from other 
people and accepted what they taught because they said it 
was Truth. We have accepted what Jesus Christ said as 
Truth because he said it was Truth, and we have accepted 
the whole Scriptures, unquestioningly, as Truth because 
they are said to teach of Truth. Now, not one word that 
is in the Scriptures, not one word that Jesus Christ said or 
that any one has ever taught us, is Truth to us until we 
have made that Truth our own; until we consciously realize 



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what they have said to be the Truth. 

For many years did we religiously go to church and say, 
" I believe in God the Father Almighty and in Jesus Christ, 
His only son, our Lord," simply because it was in the 
prayer book to be said at that point in the service, but if 
we had stopped to consider what we were saying we would 
not have believed it at all. We know very well that Jesus 
Christ is not the only son of God the Father Almighty, for 
we know that God is no respecter of persons, but that we 
are all sons of the Most High. Jesus did lovingly put him- 
self in communion with God, and he did prove Him to be 
the Father Almighty, and because he did this thing, we also 
can attain to it. What one can do, all can do. There are 
many now who are endeavoring to follow in the footsteps 
of this friend and "elder brother" because they perceive 
that he told truly of this freeing Principle, Truth. 

That one knows the most of Truth who proves his knowl- 
edge. The fruits of the Spirit are clearly told us by Paul. 
They are manifestations that follow a knowledge and prac- 
tice of Truth, and they would come to any child who 
sought Truth, even if he had never heard of Paul and his 
words, or of Jesus. These same manifestations bless the 
earnest Truth seekers of all people, who know nothing of 
Jesus and the Christian Scriptures. 

The question is, what is Truth and where may it be 
found? If it is a Principle it must be Omnipresent. There 
are many true principles, but they must have one source or 
Father, therefore Truth must be Principle Itself, and being 



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omnipresent it is everywhere, always, therefore it is always 
to be found just now — here; in you, in me, and in every- 
thing. If we would never listen to a teacher, if we would 
never read a book of any kind, we could still find Truth 
were we to seek it. Let there first be a willing mind to 
seek the Truth, to know it, to love it and to do it and then 
will the Truth flow in upon us from every quarter. 

We have for ages built up our false beliefs and shut out 
the Truth from our consciousness, but we have the privi- 
lege and the power to tear down these false beliefs and to 
bask in the light of the Truth, as it is unfolded in us. The 
mighty word, that which makes of Substance all things vis- 
ible to our consciousness, is ours to speak. 

The word is, in a sense, creative, for it brings to our con- 
sciousness the fruit of that which we speak. If we speak the 
words ignorantly we get the fruits just the same as though 
we speak them willfully. Error speaking has brought the 
conscious world into sickness, sorrow, anxiety, discord and 
death. Right speaking will heal the world of all this 
disease. I do not believe in any treatment given only to 
bring about physical healing. I believe in soul healing, in 
which physical healing is inclusive. 

A health) 7 body is one of the signs that follow the accept- 
ance of the Truth. He who says "Heal me and then I 
will believe," will do nothing of the kind. The signs follow 
and never precede a knowledge of Truth. Truth must be 
sought for Its own sake. Knowledge of Truth is freedom 
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If you seek simply to be healed of a disease you are not 
really benefited, for you still have the belief that there is 
such a thing as sickness, and that you had it, and you are 
in no way fortified against having it again. Perfect heal- 
ing is soul healing and every true treatment is a treatment 
for the soul, receptivity to which is shown by the response 
of health in the body. Do you want health, wholeness, 
soundness, completeness, harmony? Seek Truth, know It, 
and It will make you free from all beliefs of sickness 
and disease of every kind. 

"God is here" are the words with which I began a 
treatment for a friend lately. Immediately two other friends 
seemed to come to me, one from another part of the city 
and the other from a distant state. One knelt at my feet, 
the other rested on my knee. A sense of Omnipresence 
came to me so strongly that my next words were "and 
here is everywhere." Then words seemed to leave me, but 
a strong knowing, a surety of Omnipresence came to me 
not only for my three friends but for all the world. A 
vision of the All Good came to me. I saw things as they 
are, there were no appearances anywhere, there was no 
evil, there was no matter. Knowledge was mine. In the 
hour that I spoke not, and even thought not, the Son of 
Man came to me. 

His visit was short; the pretty strike of my clock roused 
me to the remembrance of an engagement as though it said, 
" neglect no present duty; by your doing well what comes 
to you to do, will you deserve these lessons of Truth." I 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 121 

obeyed. My patient roused and said, "what a glorious 
treatment; the pain has left my chest and the ache has 
gone out of my legs. " The second friend came to my office 
bright and well the next morning, although she had been in 
bed the two previous days. The distant friend I have not 
yet heard from, but I know that Truth, the sweet Healer, 
was there as well as here. 

How mighty is Truth, and wise will we be if we seek Her. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. 

THE CONTAGION OF HEALTH. 

How vastly wide-spread and far-reaching is the contagion 
of health — strong, sturdy, robust health. Some people 
think it is disease that is contagious, but this is a very 
weak, error belief compared to the truth of the contagion 
of health. Did you ever think you were sick and have a 
call from a bright, courageous, healthy friend? Did not she 
have you laughing in a minute, and wanting to get out of 
your bed in less than half an hour? Have you not known 
of a whole family being cast down over the sickness of one 
member, when a strong, health-believing friend coming in 
would have them all cheered up in no time at all? 

I know a physician who makes pain fly almost as soon as 
he comes into the room where the patient is, just because 
of his warm faith in God as Good; and sometimes he for- 
gets to open his medicine case at all, and goes off without 
giving any, and when in the course of a few hours the 
patient, or one of the family, remembers he had left no med- 
icine for her, they laugh, and she says, "Well, I am so 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 23 

much better I guess I do not need any medicine," and she 
gets well from the working of the health thoughts which 
she had imbibed from this doctor. 

I was one night in a fearful panic at an exhibition of fire- 
works. The people acted like a lot of wild animals. 
Women screamed and fainted; men swore and pushed and 
struck in every direction; children were knocked down and 
clothing was pulled off of men, women and children. No 
one seemed to have any presence of mind at all. Directly 
one man in a clear, steady, courageous voice called out, 
"Stop! stop! stand still everybody!" The people seemed 
electrified and obeyed. Then he called in a commanding 
tone in which direction a certain part of the crowd should 
head, and in about ten minutes this vast frightened mass of 
people had nearly all dispersed; only a few were left to tell 
the tale, beside some broken umbrellas, overskirts, bustles 
and handbags. 

It almost seemed as though one clear, courageous mind 
had put ten thousand fearful ones to flight. Did not this 
prove the contagion of strength and courage? What is 
really true once is always true. Therefore courage is 
always more contagious than fear, and health is always 
more contagious than disease. 

When the pessimistic world speaks of contagion it always 
thinks it is talking of sickness as epidemic, but it will soon 
find out that it is health that is really epidemic. How 
many whole families do you know who have stopped taking 
medicine because one member awakened to the truth that 



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healing was accomplished through mind, and that taking 
medicine was useless in itself? 

Truth is like leaven: let one member of a family get a 
little understanding of it, and very soon the whole family, 
either consciously or unconsciously, are imbued with it. 
Sometimes they think they are resisting it, and they try to 
dissuade or persuade the avowed Truth lover, but it soon 
passes away if this one is only lovingly true to Truth, and 
lives it. Truth is light, and light shines. Thoughts are 
catching. One does not have to audibly speak Truth; if 
she thinks it, her family will catch it from her, and not 
only to her family, but her thoughts go out into the whole 
world. There is no end to a right thought till it has trav- 
eled the round world, when it comes back to the thinker 
with its fruits, with good pressed down and running over. 

It is a very strong mentality that is not affected in any 
way by the thoughts of other people. A strong mentality 
is generally a healthy one, for health is strength. The 
people who are sick are usually weak in thought, and they 
need to imbibe or M catch" the thoughts of the healthy and 
strong. As Truth is omnipotent, the true thoughts can 
very soon uproot the error thoughts. Persistent right 
thinking can remove beliefs of sickness or of doubt or of 
any error, even if they are mountain high. The thing to 
do is to find out what is true, and then to think it. Of 
course to think what is true one generally has to think ex- 
actly contrary to what she has been thinking, and very often 
exactly contrary to what really seems to be true; but it can 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 2$ 

be done after one finds out what is true. You might pull 
the dark shades of your window down tight at night, when 
you awaken the next morning you might think it still dark 
or still night. Some one might come into your room and 
tell you it was broad daylight. By raising the curtains you 
would let the light into your room, and you would realize 
for yourself the truth of what that one had said. 

Now God is Health, and God is omnipresent. You may 
not think that health is omnipresent, but it is. So lift up 
the curtains of your window and see that it is all around 
you, and in you, and through you, ready for you to per- 
ceive it and call it forth into manifestation. Thoughts of 
sickness and disease are error thoughts; thoughts of health 
and strength are true thoughts. Truth is omnipotent and 
every true thought that ever has been held, every health 
word that ever has been spoken, is omnipotent and there- 
fore health thoughts persistently held will put out the 
thoughts of sickness, just as surely as the light dispels the 
darkness, and they will do it slowly or quickly according 
to the earnestness and persistence with which you think 
your health thoughts. Thoughts definitely projected return 
with their fruit much more quickly than when feebly 
thought. If you throw a ball with force against a wall it 
will immediately come bounding back to you; if you give it 
a careless, feeble throw it will roll all around, and may be 
quite a time in rolling back to you; it may stop altogether 
and lie still till you go and pick it up from where it is lying. 
Nov/ some people speak their true words with so much earn- 



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estness and faith that they are very quickly healed; others 
speak them in a half-hearted way, and see but very little 
fruit of them, after a while they see that if they want to be 
healed they have just got to take up their word and defi- 
nitely and earnestly speak it. They must speak it in love 
and in praise, in gratitude and in joy, in understanding and 
in earnestness, in hope and in knowledge, in faith and in 
patience, and when they have spoken it often enough, just 
often enough for the perfect molding of their character, lo! 
they are healed! 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 27 



CHAPTER XXV. 

FORGIVENESS AS A REMEDY. 

Do you want to be healed? Are you really willing to do 
anything to be healed, as you say you are? Then forgive 
every one. There is nothing that will so surely enrich the 
blood and tone up the system as will genuine forgiveness. 
When we are sick we always are holding condemnation in 
our thoughts against some one or something. Thoughts of 
condemnation are not thoughts of love. Condemnation 
never heals. Love soothes and heals and strengthens. In 
condemnation there is no forgiveness; in love there is all 
forgiveness. 

Two instances of self-healing have come to my notice 
lately that were very helpful to me; so I will tell them to 
you, that you may get from them what is in them for you. 
Both of these demonstrations were with the same per- 
son, a lady who is an earnest Truth seeker, and who has 
proved to herself time and again that she not only is 
willing, but glad, to obey the Spirit's teaching. 

The first was one day when she was going to the World's 



128 

Fair. All her life she has had a belief of sore feet; so much 
so that she always had great fear of suffering when she was 
11 breaking in" new shoes; and lately a bunyon on her great 
toe joint had come back, which she had thought was healed 
long ago. Well, the day she went to the Fair it seemed 
necessary for her to wear a pair of new shoes, and she was 
afraid they would hurt her, and directly they did begin to 
hurt her, sure enough. She treated then against fear. 
The leather in the shoes began to draw, till she felt as 
though a plaster was drawing her feet into a thousand boils; 
the bunyon began to pain, and burned till she began to be 
afraid that she would either have to take her shoes off right 
then and there in the car, or else faint. "Oh! what shall 
I do? " she mentally exclaimed. " Forgive thine enemies," 
came a voice distinct and clear. "I do forgive, I do for- 
give!" she said; and then it seemed as though a well of 
love sprang up within her soul, and she not only wanted to 
forgive every one and everything, but to bless them. She 
took away all condemnation against the new shoes, against 
her feet, against the particular great toe joint. She forgave 
them for all she had suffered, she told them she took away 
all the condemnation she had ever held against them. She 
forgave her parents, and especially her mother, for ever 
believing in sore feet, she forgave the race for holding any 
such error belief, and finally she forgave herself for her past 
error belief; she cleansed herself of all condemnation 
against every one and everything. Her feet were healed 
before the train stopped at the Fair grounds. This was 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 120, 

about 10 o'clock in the morning. She walked nearly all 
day, forgot all about her feet, and when she started home 
about six in the evening she felt ever so much better than 
when she had entered the grounds in the morning. 

About a week later, one night as she was preparing to 
retire she was suddenly seized with a frightful pain in her 
head; it was not a headache, but it was a most excruciating 
pain. She tried to treat herself, but the pain was soon too 
severe for her to think a single healing thought. She could 
not lie still in her bed; she almost felt that she would have 
to do something desperate to stop that horrible pain. 
Finally she went to call a member of the family to go for 
a healer, whom she felt sure could help her, when again 
came the voice to her: "This is your own demonstration." 
In agony she cried, " O Spirit, teach me; show me the way! 
What shall I do? I will obey thee; see, I am meek and 
lowly of heart; tell me what to do." "There is no con- 
demnation; forgive! " was the reply. She said, " I do for- 
give; I do forgive. There is no condemnation against any 
one or anything in all the world in my heart. I forgive 
every one and every one forgives me." Then people who 
in times past she had felt had not been just to her, circum- 
stances that had been hard for her, sicknesses that she 
had borne, passed before her like a panorama. To every 
one of them she lovingly and truthfully said, "I forgive 
you, and you forgive me." The pain in her head began to 
pass away; she felt as though a cool, electric hand was 
soothing it away; soon she forgot all about it. She forgave 



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every one who came to her, some of them people with 
whom she had not come in contact since her girlhood, her 
childhood, and almost her babyhood. Directly she fell 
asleep, and I heard her say a few days since that she almost 
felt as though nothing could ever make her angry again, 
she feels such peace. 

Forgive thine enemies. Love them and make them thy 
friends. 

We all know that our health or ill health is the outshow- 
ing of our thoughts. We want to think so as to realize 
perfect health. We can compel ourselves to right thoughts 
by persistently holding to them. Thoughts are silent 
words. Any word of Truth (any substance word) contains 
the whole Truth. If we will take a word and dissect it, 
find out what it means, and use it as we can use it if we 
will only learn how, we will find that it will do wonderful 
things for us. The tendency has been, I think, to skip 
around too much, to try too many words at a time, to speak 
this word a little while, that word a few times, but not 
really to get the meaning of any word. Now let us take a 
word and deal steadfastly with it for a time. True and 
honest dealing with any true word must bring us health. If 
we use the true word we will soon see that really we are 
not using it for the sake of bringing health to us, but be- 
cause we see that by continuance in the use of it we can 
learn to make the Good manifest. 

Give me a clean heart, O God! 

" Righteousness" is a wonderful word. Health secure is 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 3 1 

a containment and outcome of righteousness. Did you ever 
hold this word in your thoughts till you found its meaning, 
and what it really means to you? A truly righteous person 
could never be sick, never be poor, never know sorrow. 
''Never have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed 
begging bread." What is it to be righteous, or to be right? 
It is to do all things in accordance with Truth. To be 
righteous is to think according to Truth. Righteous doing 
is but the outcome of righteous thinking. Webster says to 
be righteous is to yield to all their due; to be just, holy, vir- 
tuous. Can you not see now how all one's heart, all one's 
soul, and all one's strength really must be given to the Good 
if we ever wish to be righteous? It is only to the righteous 
that great blessings are promised. 

Now, we are often told that as we think, so are we; that 
it is important for us to think true thoughts if we would 
have the conditions in life that we desire. We all want 
to be righteous, to think righteously, and we all send 
out the earnest, heartfelt aspiration, * ' Show me the way, 
that I may walk therein." If there is but One Substance 
in the universe, we would not be thinking truly if in our 
thoughts we acknowledged two substances. If Spirit — 
Mind — is the only Substance, we would not be yielding to 
Mind its due if we also claimed matter as a reality; so you 
see, in our thoughts we must acknowledge but One Sub- 
stance. The Good is omnipresent. Now there is nothing 
to you except of what you are conscious. There is no 
world or space or place to you except as you are conscious 



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that there is. So you see Presence, to you, is that of 
which you are conscious. If your thoughts are all of the 
Good, then to you the Good is Omnipresent, everywhere 
present, or present in all of your thoughts. Six and four are 
ten, but they are not ten to you unless you realize that they 
are; and unless you do realize that the sum of these two 
numbers is ten, you are not thinking rightly about it. 
Righteousness means Tightness. "With all thy getting, 
get understanding." Understanding of what? Why, under- 
standing of what is right, of what really is, of Truth. 

People never can see the truth about anything, never can 
see anything rightly, while they are prejudiced against it 
or for it, in any way. So let us clear away all prejudice 
from out of our thoughts. We must bear one another's 
burdens. Whatever we do for ourselves, we must be will- 
ing to do for our brother also. Experience has taught me 
that if I say, " I am not prejudiced," that my thoughts are 
apt to be self-centered; but that if I say, " There is no such 
thing as prejudice," I am not only denying for myself, but 
for every one else. If there is no such thing as prejudice, 
then no one can be prejudiced. The one who condemns is 
not seeing righteously; for there is no condemnation to him 
who has the same mind as Christ Jesus. 

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. It 
is worth while for us to cleanse all error from our thoughts. 
Let us for a whole month deny, saying, ' ' There is no 
prejudice; there is no condemnation, " and affirm ' 'righteous- 
ness, righteousness, righteousness." These denials will be a 



OR, DROPS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH. 1 33 

constant guard over our thoughts, to keep them from run- 
ning off into error; and the affirmation "righteousness" 
held persistently and understandingly, will be an open 
sesame into the kingdom of heaven. 

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